AI: Amazon pulls out the big guns

Amazon+Anthropic.

On Monday, Amazon announced that it would invest up to 4 billion USD in Anthropic, the AI start-up known mainly for its Claude chatbot and founded by Dario and Daniela Amodei, OpenAI transplants. This investment clearly signals that Amazon won’t be left behind in the AI arms race. As part of the agreement, Amazon will take a minority share in the company and commits to incorporating Anthropic technology in various products, in particular the AWS Bedrock service for the creation of AI applications. Anthropic will also use Amazon chips to build, train and deploy future AI models and promises to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its main cloud-service provider.

Anthropic’s Claude and Claude 2 chatbots, which are based on large language models, are similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. They can translate text, write code and answer various questions. Anthropic says that its model is safer and more reliable because it is based on a set of principles intended to make it “helpful, honest and harmless”.

⇨ The Verge, Jess Weatherbed, “Amazon will invest up to $4 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic.”

2023-09-25