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Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
Ray Choi
April 02, 2024
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💸 Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
🇨🇳 In tech rivalry with the US, China is behind on a key asset: Its own OpenAI
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Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.
The tech giant said it will spend another $2.75 billion backing Anthropic, a San Francisco-based startup that’s widely viewed as a front-runner in generative artificial intelligence. Its foundation model and chatbot Claude competes with OpenAI and ChatGPT.
The companies announced an initial $1.25 billion investment in September, and said at the time that Amazon would invest up to $4 billion. Wednesday’s news marks Amazon’s second tranche of that funding.
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In China, which is angling to produce its own chips or get more from Nvidia, no dominant gen AI contender to OpenAI has emerged yet among dozens of Chinese tech titans and startups.
A new study by think tank Macro Polo, run by the Paulson Institute, shows that the U.S. is home to 60% of top AI institutions, and the U.S. remains by far the leading destination for elite AI talent at 57% of the total, compared with China at 12%.
But the research finds that China leads the U.S. by a few other measures, including being ahead of the U.S. in producing top-tier AI researchers, based on undergraduate degrees, with China at 47% and the U.S. lagging with 18%. Additionally, among top-tier AI researchers working at U.S. institutions, 38% have China as their country of origin, compared with 37% from the U.S.
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