According to CNBC,Google Agreed to Anthropic The company was founded by former OpenAI AI startup founded by an executive.
The investment commitment includes an upfront cash infusion of $500 million, with an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time. An Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC. The planned financing was earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal.Google A spokesperson for did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Anthropic is the developer of Claude 2, a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT used by companies including Slack, Notion, and QuoraFounded in 2021, the company has received investments from Salesforce and Zoom in addition to Google and was valued at $4.1 billion earlier this year.
Claude 2 is able to summarize content up to about 75,000 words, which could be the length of a book. Users can input large amounts of data and request a summary in the form of a memo, letter, or story. In contrast, ChatGPT can only handle content of about 3,000 words.
Research conducted by machine learning monitoring platform Arthur AI found thatClaude 2 is the most reliable chatbot in terms of “self-awareness”, that is, accurately assessing what it knows and doesn’t know, and only answering questions that it has training data to support.Arthur AI tested chatbots from Meta, Cohere, and OpenAI.
In April this year, Google invested $300 million in Anthropic and acquired 10%'s equity.Anthropic was one of four companies invited to participate in a discussion on responsible AI development at the White House, spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris. Google's parent company Alphabet, Microsoft and OpenAI were other companies invited to the conference.
In May, Anthropic quickly raised $450 million in funding. At the time, according to PitchBook data,This marks the largest increase in AI companies since Microsoft invested in OpenAI in January.maximumA round of financing.
Anthropic was co-founded by Dario Amodei, former vice president of research at OpenAI, and his sister Daniela Amodei.Daniela was previously the Vice President of Security and Policy at OpenAI. Anthropic’s founding team also includes several OpenAI researchers..
Amodei told CNBC in July that Anthropic spent at least two months developing itsup to dateThe market is growing so fast that there is room for multiple players to succeed, she said.
Amodei said at the time:From a business perspective, this is a very unusual time, as the demand for large language models is so intense that it actually outstrips the current industry’s ability to supply them.. The market landscape is very broad, and there is a lot of room for many different users and user types to take advantage of these systems.”