Amazon may invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup

Amazon announced last Monday (25) that it could invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic. A. The startup in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) sector is one of the main competitors of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. The deal will give the e-commerce giant a minority stake in the company.

The amount equivalent to R$ 19.8 billion in direct conversion will be gradually invested. Amazon will provide US$1.25 billion (R$6.2 billion) initially, with the option to invest the remaining US$2.75 billion over time.

With this partnership, Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the primary cloud provider for workloads, including security research and base model development.

There are also plans to use custom AWS chips to build, train and deploy future AI models.

In order, Amazon will be able to incorporate its new business partner’s productive artificial intelligence technology into many of its productslike Amazon Bedrock to improve customer experiences.

Additionally, the retailer is firmly entering the AI ​​race to compete against rivals Meta, Microsoft and Google.

Safer than competitors

Responsible for Claude chatbotThe startup, founded by former OpenAI employees with an operation similar to ChatGPT and Google Bard, claims that its language model offers greater security and reliability.

Guided by a set of principles, the technology can examine the answers provided without relying on human review.

Claude and Claude 2 AIs are also capable of handling different types of requests, including more detailed ones: analysis of larger legal and business documents. Just like their competitors, they write code, translate, answer questions, and much more.

Investors of Anthropic, which was valued at $5 billion in May this year, include brands such as Salesforce, Menlo Ventures, Spark Capital, Sound Ventures and Zoom.