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Google continues investing in AI.

Google is tak­ing a 10 per cent stake worth $300mn in arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence start-up Anthropic, becom­ing the latest tech giant to invest in the boom­ing field.

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Google has inves­ted about $300mn in arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence start-up Anthropic, mak­ing it the latest tech giant to throw its money and com­put­ing power behind a new gen­er­a­tion of com­pan­ies try­ing to claim a place in the boom­ing field of «gen­er­at­ive AI».

Google’s move high­lights the influ­ence that a small num­ber of Big Tech com­pan­ies have assumed over other busi­nesses work­ing on AI, which need access to cloud com­put­ing plat­forms to handle the giant AI mod­els developed by groups such as Anthropic.

The search com­pany’s invest­ment also echoes the $1bn cash-for-com­put­ing invest­ment that Microsoft made in OpenAI three years ago. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are seek­ing to make devel­op­ments in gen­er­at­ive AI, com­puter pro­grams that can write scripts and cre­ate art in seconds.

While Microsoft has sought to integ­rate OpenAI’s tech­no­logy into many of its ser­vices, Google’s rela­tion­ship with Anthropic is lim­ited to act­ing as the com­pany’s tech sup­plier in what has become an AI arms race, accord­ing to people famil­iar with the arrange­ment.

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  1. Sebastian6 February 2023 at 12:31

    It's a scary but awesome time to be alive. I can't wait to see what the next years will bring. AI that could maybe, possibly find cures for diseases we couldn't? AI that helps us create better road systems? Better buildings? A better future?

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    1. Jose6 February 2023 at 13:29

      Change is coming whether we like it or not. It's better to be a part of it then to be afraid of it. There are dangers to this as there are with anything else but there's also unlimited potential.

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  2. Peter6 February 2023 at 13:37

    I'm surprised they invested only $300 millions in Anthropic. Is it because Anthropic didn't allow them to invest more and have a larger share?

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    1. Aurelia6 February 2023 at 14:13

      Could be. Maybe Anthropic wants to be independent and not let any one company dictate what they can do or not do. And it's better this way. Creativity can't be shackled.

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