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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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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…

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

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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?

(Just speculating) They'll probably out SBF and Ellison through legal financial means at one point. Looks like a heavy burden to carry from this point on.

If they don't, Eric Schmidt - SBF family connection will start to look suspicious.

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

There were a few weeks recently when she couldn't even set timers (the timer wasn't displayed on the screen leading to constant "Alexa, show me the timer" requests).

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

I wish Siri did that consistently. Right now my Apple Watch Siri is unusable even to set timers. I don't know if the latest updates on my old watch struggles to run or what else the issue could be.

Old siri goes online, the new series 10 watch stuff is local, so might be better? Holding my breath lol .

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

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> ” 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…

There's no creative accounting.

Amazon reduces its profits, and pays less taxes, true.

They also do get sales growth.

But nowhere is this "AWS' own money". AWS has to pay Nvidia for the chips. Nvidia is worth 1 trillion for a reason.

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

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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?

Related from December (but unresolved there): Will Anthropic return the $580M in Series B funding led by SBF? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111082

Related from June: FTX Halts Sale of Its $500 Million Stake in AI Startup Anthropic https://archive.ph/WR94S

Seems like FTX owns that stake, not Bankman-Fried and Ellison? Nishad Singh was apparently involved too: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yz7xpx/inve...

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erm misconception. Apple hasn’t released a dedicated chatbot but they use models heavily and in very targeted ways all the iPhones have had a transformer co-processor for several generations, the neutral engine is primed for use with this current crop with just a little more dedicated ram to it this is arguably better than the pick me chatbot thing but Apple is also primed to disrupt all of that, they include a fine…

/s ?

it will feel like Apple supremacy to all of YC’s new AI portfolio companies

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The real winners will be the nuclear reactor plant builders. And TSMC.

And hopefully all of us plebs as well? I might be too optimistic about the future of AI.

Would love to see AI impact education. Help "left-behind" students catch up.
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