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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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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.

> Anthropic’s main mission is ethical.

And OpenAI's mission was "open".

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

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

As someone who had been rabidly following developments in the space until earlier this year: I’ve fallen a bit behind. I’be been walking around with the (seemingly misguided) view that the bigger LLaMA 2 models were sort of neck and neck with like 3.5-turbo, Claude, and the rest of the first string modulo GPT-4 that had a pretty steady if eroding lead. What’s the lay of the land in 9/23? Or better yet, what do I need…

Don’t worry, GPT-4 is still the best.

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

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post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who had been rabidly following developments in the space until earlier this year: I’ve fallen a bit behind. I’be been walking around with the (seemingly misguided) view that the bigger LLaMA 2 models were sort of neck and neck with like 3.5-turbo, Claude, and the rest of the first string modulo GPT-4 that had a pretty steady if eroding lead. What’s the lay of the land in 9/23? Or better yet, what do I need…

Don’t worry, GPT-4 is still the best.

Water cooler chat is that it’s a 1.5 terraweight, 16-way mixture model that is running at a loss on inference for paying customers.

If that’s true it fucking better be.

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

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So does anyone know how this works out with Googles investment a few months back?: Announcement "Anthropic Partners with Google Cloud" Feb 3, 2023 - https://www.anthropic.com/index/anthropic-partners-with-goog... "...Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, has selected Google Cloud as its cloud provider. The partnership is designed so that the companies can co-develop AI computing systems; Anthropic will levera…

Jan 25, 2024 “Azure will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, providing our team with access to leading compute infrastructure and Microsoft’s expertise in AI cloud services”.

Poor prediction.

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

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Yeah, we should totally put our trust in founders who would gladly accept money from immoral sources. We need to understand that society only values who moves first. The early bird gets the worm. If they want to play the game, they need to raise funds from people who truly understand power and money, regardless of the human cost. /s

Altman scared the fuck out of me a decade ago. And if I had told anyone five years ago that there would be eyeball scanners building a privately-held biometrics database at a level recently considered extreme for violent criminals? What letter anon would that have sounded like? I would have been like easy there mom, no one is doing that. Are we allowed to talk about Loopt and Greenpoint and OpenAI and Autodesk and Si…

Yes, you are. Now, what are you talking about?

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

#136

I doubt there is $4B cash changing hands here. Did they invest with AWS Credits? Is AI chip access futures the new cryptocurrencies ponzi?

It’s likely a combination of 1) AWS credits, 2) hard cash, 3) tranches. If I had to guess probably $200-500M cash, and rest in credits and probably 2-4 tranches. Hence why it is “up to”.

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

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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.

Every Gen AI startup is on all 3 clouds for GPU availability + those sweet free credits.

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

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Google says over 70% of generative AI unicorns are GCP customers though maybe they're multicloud or just there for TPUs.

It could mean they use Google cloud services other than GPU/TPU, like Google Oauth, etc.

Possible but would be pretty misleading stat if so. It sounded to me like statement meant it was for generative AI needs. I know midjourney uses TPUs but for training but don't really know who the other generative AI unicorns are besides OpenAI.

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post #132

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Don’t worry, GPT-4 is still the best.

Water cooler chat is that it’s a 1.5 terraweight, 16-way mixture model that is running at a loss on inference for paying customers. If that’s true it fucking better be.

This should not have stopped any of FAANGs from competing (especially Google), and yet they are still far behind OpenAI - more than a year after GPT-4 was trained.
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