Artificial Intelligence: Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Amazon on Monday announced an investment of up to $4 billion in US artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which is developing a competitor to ChatGPT, accelerating the global race towards these technologies.

Through this partnership, the online commerce and “cloud” giant (hosting data that can be accessed remotely) will take a minority stake in Anthropic, which developed Claude, a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence tool Open AI.

For its part, Anthropic will use chips from Amazon Web Service (AWS) — the world’s largest “cloud” company — that were developed specifically to create machine learning models.

Key to this agreement, according to Amazon, is to accelerate Anthropic’s future chatbot models, which AWS users will have access to.

So-called “generative” AI, capable of generating new content from learning data, is whetting the appetites of internet giants. A few days ago, Amazon announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will be equipped with artificial intelligence.

For its part, Microsoft indicated last Thursday that it will integrate OpenAI’s new generative AI interface into its Bing search engine.