Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google has invested almost $400 million (R6.99 billion) in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, which is testing a rival to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the deal.<\/p>\n
Google and Anthropic declined to comment on the investment, but separately\u00a0announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a partnership in which Anthropic will use Google\u2019s cloud computing services.<\/p>\n The deal marks the latest alliance between a tech giant and an AI startup as the field of generative AI \u2014 technology that can generate text and art in seconds \u2014 heats up.<\/p>\n The deal gives Google a stake in Anthropic, but doesn\u2019t require the startup to spend the funds buying cloud services from Google, said the person who asked not to be identified because the terms were confidential.<\/p>\n \u201cAI has evolved from academic research to become one of the biggest drivers of technological change, creating new opportunities for growth and improved services across all industries,\u201d Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of Google Cloud, said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cGoogle Cloud is providing open infrastructure for the next generation of AI startups, and our partnership with Anthropic is a great example of how we\u2019re helping users and businesses tap into the power of reliable and responsible AI.\u201d<\/p>\n Founded in 2021 by former leaders of OpenAI Inc., including siblings Daniela and Dario Amodei, Anthropic AI in January released a limited test of a new chatbot named Claude to rival to OpenAI\u2019s wildly popular ChatGPT.<\/p>\n The Google-Anthropic partnership follows a high-profile $10 billion\u00a0investment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Microsoft Corp. in OpenAI, which built on the $1 billion the software giant had poured into the AI startup in 2019, plus another round in 2021.<\/p>\n Such alliances give more established companies such as Microsoft and Google access to some of the most popular and advanced AI systems.<\/p>\n Startups like Anthropic, in turn, need funding and cloud-computing resources that a tech giant like Google can provide.<\/p>\n In announcing the deal, Google said its cloud division would lend computing power and advanced AI chips that Anthropic plans to use to train and deploy its future AI products.<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s language model assistant, Claude, hasn\u2019t yet been released to the public, but the startup said it planned to expand access to the chatbot \u201cin the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n The deal underscores Google\u2019s commitment to AI, particularly in ways that may be expanded beyond the company\u2019s core search business.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited by the AI-driven leaps we\u2019re about to unveil in Search and beyond,\u201d Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Thursday as the company reported fourth-quarter earnings.<\/p>\n He said Google intended to release chatbots \u201cin the coming weeks and months\u201d and allow consumers to use such products \u201cas a companion to search.\u201d<\/p>\n Google\u2019s investment in Anthropic was reported earlier by the Financial Times.<\/p>\n The deal marks the latest alliance between a tech giant and an AI startup as the field of generative AI \u2014 technology that can generate text and art in seconds \u2014 heats up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":478985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[32030,84095,35793,83065,167,123,45266],"class_list":["post-478983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-alphabet","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Microsoft Teams Premium launched \u2014 with AI that can take your meeting notes<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"