Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Eridrus » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 3:36 PM UTC

benterix wrote: post #71

divo6 wrote: post #37

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…

GCP is notorious for the limited availability of ML instances so I'm not surprised about this announcement.

All the big clouds are bad for this, GCP has actually been the best big cloud in my experience.

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

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Post by roguas » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

nemothekid wrote: post #245

swamp40 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can train a machine using video, and get it to repeat what you have taught it...and then manufacture millions of them - you have an (almost)-zero-marginal-cost revolution just like you had for software development. Plus, it's replacing $$$ humans. 4X the productivity while paying for itself in a few months.

> If you can train a machine using video, and get it to repeat what you have taught it I might be wrong, but from what I know about Transformer models and neural nets in general, what you are describing sounds a lot closer to something like an AGI. When you say “train a machine” here it sounds a lot closer to “teach a machine” rather than “finding weights and baises for an existing function”. I think we are still a w…

I dont think AGI is required. But multimodality for sure and some piece to plan/execute actions. Prompting techniques now, would land you clear tasks, validations and such, given some objective "replace table leg". A unit to process this would be required.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:03 PM UTC

benced wrote: post #226

badrequest wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can enter a DPA (data processing agreement) with OpenAI that forbids subsequent training on submitted content.

Yes, that involves getting lawyers involved which is the aforementioned headache.

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

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Post by ignoramous » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:20 PM UTC

mi_lk wrote: post #146

ignoramous wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Mark Zuckerberged them As in? MZ as a verb can be interpreted too many ways

Stupendous in going after key deals and closing them.

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

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Post by az226 » Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 12:48 PM UTC

az226 wrote: post #136

miohtama wrote: post #30

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”.

First tranch apparently $1.25B. No details as of now how much was cash.