Amazon is racing to dominate the growing AI market (artificial intelligence). The e-commerce giant announced this Monday that it will invest up to $4 billion. anthropica startup known for creating chatbots claude And claude 2It is considered one of the main competitors of the popular ChatGPT.
Amazon said in a statement that it would initially allocate $1.25 billion to acquire a minority stake in Anthropic. investment you can expand this later. The agreement thus allows it to intensify its competition with Microsoft. Google, Aim And NvidiaThe best positioned companies in the call field Generative AIIt is a technology sector whose importance is increasing.
Anthropic was founded by brothers in 2021 Dario Amodei And Daniela Amodei. They both worked OpenAIThe creator of ChatGPT, but they left the company because they disagreed with its alliance with Microsoft. Computer giant established since 2019 Bill Gates It invested a total of $13 billion in OpenAI, integrating its tool into a large portion of its services.
Integration of generative AI
chatbots It works similarly to ChatGPT, based on the major Claude and Claude 2 language models from Anthropic, or poet, version created by Google. These are conversational assistants that can answer user questions, translate or synthesize texts, and even write code. However, even though it seems reasonable, they make mistakes. Anthropic claims that its model is more reliable because it can automatically review its responses without the need for human supervision.
As part of the deal, Amazon will acquire the following technology: anthropic to many of its services. For its part, the ‘start-up’ will use: chips According to TechCrunch, Amazon’s customized solutions are vital to realizing its plans to build an AI model 10 times more powerful than those available today. Anthropic has also committed to using the following services: cloudy related to Amazon network services (AWS).
The logistics giant isn’t the only company interested in Anthropic. Google owns a nearly 10% stake in this fledgling company after investing $300 million at the beginning of the year. Reuters stated that this cooperation continues.
market expansion
Amazon’s announcement comes at a time when generative AI is becoming mainstream. According to ‘The Wall Street Journal’, Meta will this week announce the launch of “dozens” of chatbots similar to ChatGPT to attract a younger audience. Its plans will also include a tool that allows celebrities to create their own personalized chatbots to simulate their personalities and interact with their fans.