The arrival of ChatGPT, and the furor that it has provoked in all kinds of sectors, caught people a bit off guard. Googlewhich has had to react quickly so as not to fall behind in as for the integration of Artificial Intelligence technologies on your products. Doubts haunted the company, which has even brought its founders, Larry Page and Sergei Brin, out of retirement to advise current management on the steps to take to avoid falling behind other technology companies.
Like Microsoft, which rushed as soon as it saw the possibilities of ChatGPT to invest a large sum of money in OpenAI and announce its integration with several of its products. And according to the Financial Times it seems that they have not wasted much time. On the one hand, it has been confirmed that the company has invested some 300 million dollars in Anthtropican Artificial Intelligence startup creating a technology that is capable of rivaling those developed by OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. He is currently developing an AI assistant named Claude.
In addition, the company has announced that is going to hold an event on AI on February 8, in which he will announce and comment on all the advances he has made recently and that are related to Artificial Intelligence. Apparently, the event will talk about improvements in the Google search engine and Maps, among other things. There are no more details about what Google will announce, but in view of the news about this investment, it is possible that some of these news are related to Anthropic developments.
As part of Google’s investment agreement in the company, those from Mountain View have kept 10% of their shares. In addition, Anthropic has agreed to buy some of Google’s services to support its technology. In addition, it appears Anthropic does not have to use the money received from this share sale to buy computing resources in the technology’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud Platform. However, it has reached an agreement with the platform, which it has chosen as its cloud provider.
Anthropic seems to have a fairly close relationship with OpenAi, as it was founded by former OpenAI staff members who left the company after Microsoft’s first investment in it. This group of researchers, led by Dario Amodei, left OpenAI due to a disagreement with the company’s management about the direction it was taking, and founded Anthropic in 2021.
What worried these researchers is that the investment from Microsoft would lead OpenAI to take a path more related to commercializing its advances in Artificial Intelligence and move them away from their original focus, more focused on research and development of advanced Artificial Intelligence. . Meanwhile, at Google they have allied with them because they cannot be left behind in Artificial Intelligence. especially when some already predict that in two years, your search engine can be replaced by an AI.
