Anthropic continues to add investments from companies with a high technological profile. Amazon’s investment in it announced a month ago, of 4,000 million dollars, is now joined by Googlethat will invest 2,000 million in the company. This, according to the Wall Street Journal, also counts SAP, Salesforce, Zoom and SK Telecom among its investors.
It is not Google’s first investment in the company, since nine months ago it allocated another $300 million to promote its activities and projects. The investment that has just been announced, however, will be carried out in several phases. In the first, Google will give Anthropic $500 million in cash in one go. The remaining 1.5 billion will be provided in several stages later.
Anthropic is currently developing Claude 2, a chatbot rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Its users include companies and services such as Slack, Notion and Quora. Founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, the former vice president of research at OpenAI, and his sister Daniela Amodei, also vice president of OpenAI, after a discussion on the safe development of Artificial Intelligence systems.
At the beginning of this year 2023, two years after its birth, it was already valued at $4.1 billion. Her research and operations team also includes several former OpenAI employees, and even members of its founding team.
With its current capabilities and functions, Claude 2 is capable of summarizing texts of around 75,000 words. Additionally, your users can bring large sets of data to you and ask for it to be summarized in different formats. Among them, like a letter, a story or a note. It is a capacity much greater than that of ChatGPT, which at the moment is only capable of doing it with about 3,000 words.
Additionally, Claude 2 is more reliable in self-awareness, meaning he more accurately assesses what he knows and what he doesn’t. Only answer questions if you have training data to rely on. This is stated by the Arthur AI machine learning monitoring platform.
As we have mentioned, Google invested $300 million in Anthropic in the spring, an operation that resulted in those from Mountain View would keep 10% of the company’s shares. After this investment, he closed a financing round with which he raised another 450 million.
