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xt00 38 minutes ago [-]
At this point if you have cash or compute credits laying around in the tens of billions, better to hedge your bets than to find out the winner that took all was not you.
addaon 18 minutes ago [-]
Unless none of the current crop of AI companies is “the winner,” either because a newcomer appears or the craze fizzles… in which case have $40B in the bank seems superior.
spindump8930 1 hours ago [-]
Hopefully this money means more compute infrastructure to help Anthropic counter the efficiency changes that have created this perceived downtrend in claude quality.
palmotea 55 minutes ago [-]
The puzzling thing is why Google would try to help with that. Aren't they competitors? Wouldn't they want their competitor to have problems?
It's more understanding for Amazon or Microsoft to make such an investment, because they're not as competitive in the model space.
mchusma 3 minutes ago [-]
Google owned 14ish percent of Anthropic before this investment, so presumably this could bring it up to as much as 25%?
michelb 4 minutes ago [-]
Deepmind is heavily using Claude. This could help secure computing power.
morelikeborelax 45 minutes ago [-]
What if Google can't compete? They don't want to be left behind and all this money being throw around is just nonsense anyway.
Oras 41 minutes ago [-]
They just announced their new chip, and they are the ones created transformers yet investing this amount in a competitor?
I don’t know what to make of it
spwa4 27 minutes ago [-]
Given that anthropic is probably paying it all back to them in compute bills, they may not be giving them anything.
namegulf 1 hours ago [-]
So $40B in google cloud credits in return for % in equity.
It's more understanding for Amazon or Microsoft to make such an investment, because they're not as competitive in the model space.
I don’t know what to make of it
Didn't Amazon AWS do the same recently?