Hopefully this money means more compute infrastructure to help Anthropic counter the efficiency changes that have created this perceived downtrend in claude quality.
palmotea•50m 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.
morelikeborelax•40m 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.
namegulf•1h ago
So $40B in google cloud credits in return for % in equity.
Didn't Amazon AWS do the same recently?
Oras•36m 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•22m ago
Given that anthropic is probably paying it all back to them in compute bills, they may not be giving them anything.
xt00•33m 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•13m 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.
neofrommatrix•1h ago