What you need to know about Anthropic, the AI startup Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in

The deal shows that Big Tech can’t always duplicate cutting-edge AI large language models on its own.

In a major development in the AI arms race, Amazon announced this morning that it has committed to paying $1.25 billion to take a minority stake in Anthropic, a developer of generative AI models similar to those that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Amazon’s investment in Anthropic, which was started by a group of ex-OpenAI members, could go up to $4 billion, the company says. The deal is a big step for Anthropic, but it also sheds some light on the tactics of the combatants in the AI arms race now raging in the tech industry.

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