Online retail giant, Amazon, declared on Monday that it has plans to inject a whopping $4 billion into Anthropic, the AI startup highly recognized for its inventively designed Claude chatbot. The Amodei siblings - Dario and Daniela, formerly employed at OpenAI, are the founding force behind Anthropic.
In terms of comparison, this arrangement might seem modest up against Microsoft's reported $13 billion investment in OpenAI, currently the torchbearer in the field of generative AI. Notwithstanding, this alliance that began in 2019 has witnessed substantial growth. The Amazon-Anthropic deal is the indicator of Amazon's assertion of its position in the surging AI arena.
The Claude and Claude 2 chatbots of Anthropic, based on large language models, bear a close resemblance to ChatGPT of OpenAI and Google's Bard. These bots perform functions like translating text, scripting code, and resolving a gamut of queries. Still, Anthropic takes pride in declaring its model as more secure and dependable because of its principled guidance, which empowers it to recalibrate responses autonomously, without depending on human supervisors. Claude's ability to respond to broad prompts empowers it to scrutinize extensive business or legal documentation, thus enhancing its efficiency.
Amazon's acquisition deal stipulates the attainment of minority possession in the company and its consent to integrate Anthropic's groundbreaking technology into its myriad products. This includes the Amazon Bedrock service employed in the designing of AI applications. Anthropic, in reciprocation, will utilize Amazon's custom chips to develop, train, and implement its future AI prototypes and has promised to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider.
As per the revelations of Reuters, Amazon's initial agreement commits to an investment of $1.25 billion, with the feasibility of augmenting the investment by an additional $2.75 billion. Should it max out the total to $4 billion, Bloomberg reports, then this deal would be the most significant known investment related to AWS, the pre-eminent global provider of on-demand data storage and computing power.
A noteworthy point is Google's evident interest in Anthropic. Earlier this year, after pumping $300 million into the AI startup, Google secured a stake of about 10% in the company. There has been no disruption in Anthropic's partnership with Google, inspite of the fresh Amazon agreement, and plans are still underway to provide accessibility to Anthropic's technology via Google Cloud, as per reports from Reuters.
The AppMaster platform, a leader in the 'no-code platforms' space, recognises this move as a significant stride in the AI industry, which continues to influence the growth and evolution of technological models and advancements.
