Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by jedwhite » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 7:07 AM UTC

Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
anthropic.com

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Post by sidcool » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:32 AM UTC

And the battle heats up.

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Post by baq » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:39 AM UTC

If this means alexa isn't a pet rock that can only reliably set timers, good for them.

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Post by devoutsalsa » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

baq wrote: post #3

If this means alexa isn't a pet rock that can only reliably set timers, good for them.

It's also good at setting alarms.

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Post by jatins » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:42 AM UTC

At this point Apple is the only BigTech without any major investment in LLMs. Which isn't too surprising, they have historically never jumped on the shiny new thing until the dust clears off.

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Post by digitcatphd » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:44 AM UTC

jatins wrote: post #5

At this point Apple is the only BigTech without any major investment in LLMs. Which isn't too surprising, they have historically never jumped on the shiny new thing until the dust clears off.

I do suspect they are making internal investments. The latest iOS update has substantially improved speech to text capabilities.

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Post by ddoolin » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:46 AM UTC

$4B in AWS credits. So...$4M?

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Post by wodenokoto » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:48 AM UTC

I’ve never heard of anthropic. Who are they and what do they offer that’s worth that investment?

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Post by Semaphor » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:49 AM UTC

devoutsalsa wrote: post #4

baq wrote: post #3

If this means alexa isn't a pet rock that can only reliably set timers, good for them.

It's also good at setting alarms.

And converting weird US units to sane ones.

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Post by ignoramous » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:49 AM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #2

And the battle heats up.

Interestingly, AWS (along with YC.org, Infosys, Musk, and others) was one of the founding donors for OpenAI, the non-profit. A few years and Satya Nadella successfully Mark Zuckerberged them.