Founded in 2021 by OpenAI alumni, Anthropic develops generative AI interfaces similar to ChatGPT. Its leaders want to be at the forefront of responsible AI, devoting time and resources to controlling possible abuses in their software. Following this new investment, Amazon will remain a minority shareholder in this company based in San Francisco (California). Asked by AFP regarding the exact weight of Amazon in Anthropic’s capital, this company refused to comment. The group also did not respond to a question relating to its valuation. The Information website indicated in September that Anthropic was discussing a stake with several investors based on a valuation of between $30 and $40 billion. The expansion of this partnership provides that Anthropic will benefit from access to the infrastructures of Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon subsidiary dedicated to remote computing (cloud), to store its data and develop its business models. Generative AI.
Amazon had already invested $4 billion in Anthropic’s capital, in two tranches, one in September 2023, the other in March 2024. Amazon has already integrated Anthropic models into its Amazon Bedrock platform, which also offers other interfaces, notably those of Meta and Mistral AI. Anthropic launched its generative AI assistant Claude in March 2023. It then offered new, more powerful versions, the latest being Claude 3.5 Sonnet, with capabilities greater than most of its competitors and close to that of OpenAI’s o1, launched in September. In addition to Amazon, Anthropic also counts among its shareholders Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which invested $2 billion in the start-up last year. According to the Bloomberg agency, the American Department of Justice would like to push Alphabet to get rid of this stake, considering that it plays a role in the abuse of Google’s dominant position in the online search market.
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