Big news from Amazon—the online shopping giant is splashing the cash like never before!
They’re investing a whopping $2.75 billion in Anthropic, a cool startup based in San Francisco. What’s Anthropic all about? Well, they’re pretty much leading the pack in the world of artificial intelligence, which is all about computers doing smart stuff like humans.
Anthropic’s star player is a chatbot named Claude, and it’s giving big names like OpenAI and ChatGPT a run for their money. Remember, those are the brains behind those helpful chatbots you sometimes chat with online.
This isn’t Amazon’s first rodeo with Anthropic—they already chucked in $1.25 billion last September. With this new investment, they’re doubling down, aiming for a grand total of $4 billion.
But get this—Amazon won’t be calling the shots at Anthropic. Nope, they’re happy just being a supportive friend with a minority stake in the company.
Anthropic’s latest invention, Claude 3, is making waves. It’s their slickest set of AI models yet, claiming to be even better than the latest and greatest from big players like OpenAI and Google.
Swami Sivasubramanian, bigwig at Amazon Web Services, is pretty pumped about it all. He says, “Generative AI is poised to be the most transformational technology of our time, and we believe our strategic collaboration with Anthropic will further improve our customers’ experiences, and look forward to what’s next.”
This move by Amazon is just one part of a bigger picture. All the big tech companies are splurging to stay ahead in the race for the best AI.
