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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 dharma1 »

cmcaleer wrote: post #63
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?

Funny that FTX customers might end up having a non-trivial amount of cents on the dollar added to their claims by a lucky investment out of the many shotgunned by SBF and crew.

Could be made whole even? Hasn’t majority of the 8b lost by FTX been recovered by now - maybe this is enough to fill the remaining gap (on some timeframe)

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

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Post by scns »

IanCal wrote: post #61
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.

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. Thank you sooo much!

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

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Post by hcks »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #23

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.

Strong FTX vibes.

Also why aren’t they a little bit more transparent about the deal? Are they worried GPT-7 from the future is gonna travel back in time to stop them?

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

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Post by theonlybutlet »

drexlspivey wrote: post #81
anonylizard wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is Deepmind doing LLMs? I thought it was a different team in Google that trained Bard/Palm

They merged Deepmind into Brain and rebranded it all Deepmind.

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

#97

Post by scns »

IanCal wrote: post #61
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.

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!

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

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Post by warthog »

drexlspivey wrote: post #81
anonylizard wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is Deepmind doing LLMs? I thought it was a different team in Google that trained Bard/Palm

I think they merged the teams

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

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Post by cmcaleer »

dharma1 wrote: post #92
cmcaleer wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny that FTX customers might end up having a non-trivial amount of cents on the dollar added to their claims by a lucky investment out of the many shotgunned by SBF and crew.

Could be made whole even? Hasn’t majority of the 8b lost by FTX been recovered by now - maybe this is enough to fill the remaining gap (on some timeframe)

Probably a little ambitious. Claims trading is currently priced at ~35c on the dollar[0], which isn't great but certainly better than what claims were trading at to begin with (~10c on the dollar).

[0]: https://claims-market.com/pricing

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

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Post by cowsandmilk »

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.

That’s not how it works. If they buy 4 billion of shares, they then have an asset worth 4 billion. No impact to profit.

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