IA: Amazon invests up to US$4 billion in the company Anthropic – 09/25/2023 – Tech

Amazon announced, this Monday (25), an investment of up to US$4 billion (R$19.6 billion, at current prices) in the American artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, which develops a rival program to ChatGPT, which will accelerate the global race for these technologies.

With this collaboration, the online commerce and “cloud” giant (data storage accessible remotely) will have a minority stake in Anthropic, which created Claude, a “chatbot” that competes with ChatGPT, the company’s artificial intelligence tool. OpenAI.

Anthropic will use chips from AWS (Amazon Web Service) – the largest “cloud” company in the world – specifically developed to build “machine learning” models.

This agreement will allow, according to Amazon, to accelerate Anthropic’s future “chatbot” models, which AWS users will have access to.

“Generative” artificial intelligence, capable of generating new content from learning data, arouses a lot of interest among internet giants.

A few days ago, Amazon announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will have artificial intelligence.

Microsoft announced last Thursday (21) that it would integrate OpenAI’s new generative artificial intelligence interface into its Bing search engine.