Amazon announced on Monday an investment of up to $4 billion in American artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, which is developing a competitor to ChatGPT, accelerating the global race for these technologies.
With this partnership, the online commerce and “cloud” (remotely accessible data hosting) giant takes a minority stake in Anthropic, which developed Claude, a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, the popular Open AI artificial intelligence tool.
For its part, Anthropic will use chips from Amazon Web Service (AWS) – the largest “cloud” company in the world – specifically designed to create machine learning models.
The key to this agreement, according to Amazon, is to accelerate Anthropic’s future chatbot models that AWS users will have access to.
So-called “generative” artificial intelligence, which is able to generate new content from learning data, is whetting the appetite of internet giants. A few days ago, Amazon announced that its virtual assistant Alexa would be equipped with AI.
Microsoft, in turn, announced last Thursday that it would integrate OpenAI’s new generative artificial intelligence interface into its Bing search engine.