oogle will make soon a new investment in Anthropic, the OpenAI competitor in artificial intelligence of more than $1 billion in order to develop more
advanced AI systems. With previous financing rounds in Anthropic of about $2 billion, Google has now increased the total investment to $3 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Anthropic AI has become popular in the AI industry due to the Claude family of artificial intelligence models which made the AI company the leading startup in the generative AI companies market.
The Google giant first invented the technology underlying models such as Claude and GPT-4 from OpenAI but fell down in the race to commercialize this powerful innovation in AI technology.
It should be mentioned that Anthropic AI was reportedly near to closing a separate $2 billion funding deal with venture capital investors from Silicon Valley, directed by Lightspeed Venture Partners. So, according to multiple sources familiar with this matter, if this agreement is closed, is expected to almost triple the startup’s valuation up to $60 billion.
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Other startups such as OpenAI and xAI raised last year more than $10 billion in investments along with Meta and Microsoft which recorded important investments.
Even more so, this Google investment in Anthropic AI adds to the $8 billion that Amazon has committed over the past 18 months, making it the largest venture investment of the Amazon company. It’s important to mention that Amazon is also planning to integrate the Anthropic Claude models in the next models of Alexa smart speaker.
However, it seems that various investors can’t yet anticipate if Anthropic AI or any of the industry rivals will record profits soon due to all the costs associated with AI development.
“Right now I’m more confident than I have been at any previous time that we are very close to powerful capabilities . . . AI systems that are better than almost all humans at almost all tasks,”, as Dario Amodei, the Anthropic chief executive stated in an interview.
When asked, both companies Google and Anthropic AI refused to make any comment.
Stay tuned for more updates!
By
Raluca Matei
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January 23, 2025 10:10 AM
