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Google Invests Another $2 Billion Into AI
Google has committed an additional $2 billion in funding to Anthropic, one of the big players in the LLM sphere. This development comes hot on the heels of Amazon's whopping $4 billion investment in the same startup. Google's initial investment of $500 million in Anthropic is set to be supplemented by an additional $1.5 billion over time, as per insiders.
This financial backing aligns with Amazon's recent commitment to inject $4 billion into the company, which was founded by former OpenAI engineers in 2021. Notably, Google, under the umbrella of Alphabet, had previously injected $550 million into Anthropic earlier this year.
Parsing through the financials, it's a fascinating race between Google and Amazon. While Amazon's commitment could potentially range from $1.25 billion to a full $4 billion in the future, Google's earlier $550 million coupled with the recent $500 million might bring its total investment to just over $2.5 billion.
However, the sheer size of Amazon's investment may not necessarily translate to a larger ownership stake compared to Google. Considering Google's involvement in previous funding rounds, the valuation of Anthropic at those points likely played a role. It's plausible that Google ensured it maintained a proportional stake.
Amazon and Google are armed with their own LLMs, yet they haven't garnered the same fervor as OpenAI's GPT model series, currently exclusive to Azure among leading cloud providers.
To retain their current customer base and deter them from exploring Azure for preferred LLM access, AWS and Google Cloud must present a compelling alternative to OpenAI. Recent reports indicate a surge in Azure OpenAI Service adoption, underscoring the urgency of this endeavor.
Anthropic's distinguishing feature lies in its ability to handle a significantly larger context window than rival LLMs, a crucial advantage for use cases requiring extensive contextual awareness, such as long research documents.
Amazon's aspiration to leverage Anthropic for market confidence in its AI-optimized ASICs underscores the high stakes. By using AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, Anthropic aims to change the market of foundation model training and deployment, in hopes of disrupting NVIDIA's GPU dominance.
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