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Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by dist-epoch »

alberth wrote: post #43

> ” 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…

> AWS gets to reduce its profits by making this investment, which means they pay less taxes.

This has been Amazon strategy for a long long time now, almost two decades.

But Bezos views this in a different way, not as an accounting trick to look good to investors, but as a way to kill the competition, since you have lower costs by not paying taxes, so you can redirect a part of what would have been taxes to attract customers (lower prices, excellent customer support, ...)

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by pyrale »

alphabetting wrote: post #75
benterix wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you use Google Workspace, you're a GCP user under the hood.

(...And it's not great when the workspace admin interface isn't enough anymore and you're dropped into the GCP admin)

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by swores »

Tiberium wrote: post #79
modeless wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have Claude 2 which is up there with GPT-4 and PaLM 2 as one of the top three publicly accessible large language models. And presumably those billions will train Claude 3.

I'm sorry but I'll have to disagree with you - Claude 2 is worse than GPT-4 in almost all tasks I've tried it with, the two things that it's better at than GPT-4 are the context window and the dataset being from early 2023 instead of late 2021 (for 3.5 Turbo/4).

Being worse than GPT-4 doesn't dispute GP's claim that it's in the top 3 with GPT-4. To disagree with them you need to name models other than GPT-4 and PaLM 2 which are also better than Claude 2.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by pgeorgi »

djjzjshdhhd wrote: post #44
philshem wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.

It's a joke. Google Assistant is notoriously awful and at home we often kid that if we ask it to play 90's rock on Spotify it will play some animal documentary on Netflix. It's not too far from the truth.

> play 90's rock ... some animal documentary ... not too far from the truth

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch?

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by IanCal »

scns wrote: post #97
IanCal wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Semi-serious. It regularly picks up an entirely bizarre song, however in doing so it's also found some bangers. My kid loves diggy-diggy hole and it played the wind rose version ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU ) which is awesome. I asked for I wanna be like you for the kids and got the expected one a few times. Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets ( https://www…

> Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg... Allready diggin the first one of 100, 95 to go. Thank you!

If you like this kind of thing, also checkout the radio 1 live lounge stuff. Been going for a long time so I think there's playlists with a couple of hundred songs and they'll be a small amount of the full sets. Often tends towards more acoustic but you can find some great covers.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by xyst »

alberth wrote: post #31

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?

Not good for a company to receive funds from investors that we now know stole and grifted from their customers.

Wonder if this company is all just smoke and mirrors at this point. Never heard of this company prior to the Amazon investment.

Kind of reminds me of the Amazon and Rivian partnership. This nobody EV company gets an investment from Amazon, interest/hype boosts potential revenue/preorders. Valuations spike to billions. IPO debuts at ~$120/share. Insiders sell shares. Hype wears off. Now it’s trading at ~$21/share.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by ianhawes »

xyst wrote: post #107
alberth wrote: post #31

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?

Not good for a company to receive funds from investors that we now know stole and grifted from their customers. Wonder if this company is all just smoke and mirrors at this point. Never heard of this company prior to the Amazon investment. Kind of reminds me of the Amazon and Rivian partnership. This nobody EV company gets an investment from Amazon, interest/hype boosts potential revenue/preorders. Valuations spike t…

Claude 2 is probably the closest competitor to GPT-4 at this point. If you haven’t heard of them before it’s because you weren’t paying attention.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by benreesman »

xyst wrote: post #107
alberth wrote: post #31

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?

Not good for a company to receive funds from investors that we now know stole and grifted from their customers. Wonder if this company is all just smoke and mirrors at this point. Never heard of this company prior to the Amazon investment. Kind of reminds me of the Amazon and Rivian partnership. This nobody EV company gets an investment from Amazon, interest/hype boosts potential revenue/preorders. Valuations spike t…

I’m no fan of the people you’re talking about myself.

But once we start going down that road we run smack on into companies with like the sovereign wealth fund in Riyadh or (to my embarrassment) Thiel or any number of people who make SBF look like the clueless, entitled, amoral but ultimately strictly small-change knucklehead he is.

There are some truly scary people invested in important companies. Do we hold all the founders to account for that or none of them? It’s not fair to pick and choose.

Re: Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

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Post by edgyquant »

xyst wrote: post #107
alberth wrote: post #31

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?

Not good for a company to receive funds from investors that we now know stole and grifted from their customers. Wonder if this company is all just smoke and mirrors at this point. Never heard of this company prior to the Amazon investment. Kind of reminds me of the Amazon and Rivian partnership. This nobody EV company gets an investment from Amazon, interest/hype boosts potential revenue/preorders. Valuations spike t…

Anthropic is known for having a model with a context nearly 3x that of ChatGPT. You must not be following LLMs very closely
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