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They are basically the only direct competitor to OA.
Google Deepmind exists. All 3 are trying to build a generalist AI agent, as opposed to the more specialised models of say CharacterAI or inflection.
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Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.
I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.
For those who don’t know, Anthropic has an interesting list of investors: - Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO/Chairman), Series A - Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX), lead investor in Series B - Caroline Ellison (FTX), Series B - Google, Series C https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic/company_fi... ——— Question: why isn’t Anthropic using Google Cloud, given who their past investors include?
> ” AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider” How much of this becomes creative accounting? AWS gets to reduce its profits by making this investment, which means they pay less taxes. Then with AWS’ own money, they will get to recognize this as new AWS cloud revenue continuing their sales growth. While all during which they also get an equate stake. This seems like a creative way for AWS (and Microsoft with…
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While AWS is probably providing sweetheart compute rates to it's portfolio, their stake in the company will also rise in value as the company grows out their revenue and goes for another round, or even an IPO.
This is the whole point of CVC - put strategic investments in rising companies playing in segments or sub-segments that you as a company don't want to enter directly yet while building out an ecosystem and also ensuring you don't become the next Kodak.
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GCP is notorious for the limited availability of ML instances so I'm not surprised about this announcement.
Google says over 70% of generative AI unicorns are GCP customers though maybe they're multicloud or just there for TPUs.
Anthropic’s main mission is ethical. Profit is just fuel for the ethical mission (and they would rather have hockey stick AI safety than hockey stick growth given the choice) Amazon, well you know them :-) Flogging their model on Bedrock etc. must be part of the plan for Anthropic but AWS investment must surely create tension.
So now the gpu farms of meta, google, X, microsoft and amazon are pretty much reserved for large foundation model training of specific models. It was probably a good thing for Anthropic to reserve their spot at the pool, even if as you point out it creates tension with their ethical mission. What options remain for other players who want to compete at this level I wonder?
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Siri has been helpful for increasing my 3-year-old's vocabulary: he'll ask it to play a song he knows, and Siri will pick out an explicit R&B piece full of all sorts of words he's never been exposed to. (Seriously -- there's a song with the title "The ABC Song", which as one might expect, is about the ABCs. But it's impossible to get it to play that via voice control; it only wants to play "abcdefu", which is not the…
I asked Siri today about the current week number (in German), and it failed. Just when I thought I've lowered my expectations enough, Siri can do one "better".
If it gave you an answer that seemed wrong, well, there are also several slightly different definitions of week number, so it could be that it chose one that wasn't the one you expected (maybe also a localization failure).