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| Report: Google is investing in a company founded by former OpenAI researchers |
According to a new report, Google has invested millions of dollars in an AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI employees that made headlines in the past with its popular intelligent chatbot ChatGPT.
The report confirms the continued fierce competition between Google and Microsoft in the battle of artificial intelligence. Microsoft decided to bet on OpenAI while Google seems to be heading for Anthropic.
According to the Financial Times, Google will invest about 300 million US dollars in the startup by the end of 2022. As part of the deal, Google will receive a 10% stake in the company and Anthropic will buy cloud computing resources from the American search giant.
The mechanism of the agreement between Google and Anthropic is somewhat similar to Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, which provides the American software giant with research expertise in the field of artificial intelligence - in exchange for billions of investments, Microsoft will also provide: the computing platform (Azure), which is needed to train cloud-based artificial intelligence models .
Notably, Anthropic is also developing a versatile chatbot called Claude, which is a potential competitor to GPT Chat. Cloud is still in closed beta, but you can read a comparison of Anthropic Systems vs OpenAI here.
It's unclear if Google plans to integrate the cloud into its service like Microsoft did with GPT Chat, but the FT report indicates that one of the drivers behind the deal is to take advantage of the cloud computing offered by Google's Improve functionality.
Anthropic Genesis Story
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by Dario Amudi, former vice president of research at OpenAI, when he brought in several researchers from across the company, including: Chief architect of GPT-3 AI-based language models Professor Tom Brown (Tom Brown) .
After OpenAI secured its first deal with Microsoft in 2019, Amoudi decided to leave OpenAI amid disagreements over the company's handling of funds, according to the Financial Times.
Since then, many AI researchers have criticized OpenAI's actions, which they say are increasingly reckless, particularly when late last year it introduced GBT chats onto the public internet without proper protections or software capable of detecting botnet results.
In contrast, Anthropic emphasizes its work to build "reliable, explainable, and treatable AI systems." But will Google's investment change those priorities?