tech giant Google invested about $300 million in an artificial intelligence startup anthropogenic, strengthening its commitment to innovation in the field of “generative AI”. With the move, Google is positioning itself as the latest player among the big tech players to invest in companies looking to carve out a share of the growing AI market.

According to sources close to the deal, Google will receive about 10% of Anthropic’s shares under the terms of the deal. The money invested must be used to purchase computing resources from the search company’s cloud division.

The move highlights the growing influence of big tech companies on AI companies that need access to cloud computing platforms to support large-scale AI models such as Anthropic models.

This investment by Google reflects Microsoft’s $1 billion investment in computing resources made in OpenAI three years ago. Now the company is reaping the rewards by launching the ChatGPT phenomenon, a robot that can communicate with users via text messages. The software giant last month continued what it called its second “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” in the company.

In search of generative AI

OpenAI and Anthropic are teaming up to advance generative AI, a revolutionary technology that allows computer programs to quickly and accurately generate text and images. This is a hot area of ​​research in artificial intelligence, with high hopes for its potential to transform content creation and perhaps change the way we work and play.

Unlike Microsoft, which integrates OpenAI technologies into its services, Google is limited to providing Anthropic technologies. Anthropic was created in 2021 when a group of researchers led by Dario Amodei left OpenAI due to disagreements over the direction of the company. They feared that Microsoft’s first investment in OpenAI would make it more commercial and undermine its original focus on advanced AI security.

Anthropic has developed an intelligent chatbot called Claude that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, though it has yet to be released to the public.

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Source: Financial Times.

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