
Google, Amazon continue to invest billions into AI that is supposedly ‘miles better’ than ChatGPT
FirstpostGoogle and Amazon are investing billions into an AI programme called Claude that is supposedly much better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Amazon had invested over $4 billion, whereas Google has invested over $2 billion, and plans to invest more A couple of days ago, Google announced its intention to invest a substantial sum of up to $2 billion in Anthropic, a prominent contender in the artificial intelligence arena. The news, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal last Friday, signifies a further intensification of the ongoing race among AI companies for dominance in this rapidly evolving field. It comes on the heels of Amazon’s commitment of $4 billion to the startup, which was unveiled just last month and included a focus on their AI assistant known as Claude.
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