Amazon said on Monday that it will spend up to $4 billion on AI startup Anthropic, joining Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI in an AI competition
The success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot released last year that is able to generate poems, essays and other works with just a short prompt, has led to billions being invested in the field.
Amazon had already announced it aimed to soup up its Alexa voice assistant with generative AI, which the firm said would allow users to have smoother conversations
San Francisco-based Anthropic is seen as a leader in the field and has its own chatbot, Claude, a competitor to ChatGPT.
“We have tremendous respect for Anthropic’s team and foundation models, and believe we can help improve many customer experiences, short and long-term, through our deeper collaboration,” said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
As part of the deal, Anthropic will use Amazon’s chips and its cloud services — the data centres that store and process data on a vast scale — for “mission critical workloads”.
Amazon said it would take a “minority ownership position” in the AI firm, which has already raised hundreds of millions since it was set up in 2021.
The arrangement escalates rivalry among Amazon and Google, which had prior opened its cloud administrations to Human-centered and contributed $300 million to get 10% of the organization.
The models utilized by computer based intelligence firms require colossal registering power and Amazon Web Administrations and Google Cloud are among the greatest suppliers.
