Amazon scrambles for its position within the AI race

This week, Amazon finished the second one section of a deal introduced closing September, when it dedicated to making an investment as much as $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic. The extra $2.75 billion invested is Amazon’s greatest take a look at ever into any other corporate and but any other sign of ways important the improvement of huge language fashions has develop into to Giant Tech. The good judgment is inconspicuous: Amazon wishes to supply fashions via AWS that compete with the OpenAI-powered choices of its arch cloud rival, Microsoft, and Anthropic is the most productive choice that exists. If we rewound the clock again to when Giant Tech may just make massive acquisitions with out them being blocked via regulators, I’m certain Amazon would have attempted to shop for Anthropic outright. As a substitute, it’s passively making an investment billions of greenbacks and telegraphing that it handiest has a minority stake and not using a board seat. Very easily for Amazon, Anthropic has in the meantime agreed to spend $4 billion on AWS over the following a number of years.There are glaring parallels right here to Microsoft’s investment of OpenAI’s ever-growing compute wishes. However Amazon’s dating with Anthropic is a long way much less comfy than it sounds as if at the floor. If truth be told, any other a part of Amazon is attempting to compete at once with Anthropic’s fashions. I’ve realized that Amazon’s AGI staff, led via SVP Rohit Prasad, has the competitive objective of outperforming Anthropic’s newest Claude fashions via the center of this 12 months. Its approaching flagship style, internally codenamed Olympus, is in coaching and fairly massive with loads of billions of parameters. 

Author: OpenAI