In recent times, ChatGPT can be said to have suddenly exploded and attracted the attention of companies in demand around the world, making many Internet companies rush to launch similar artificial intelligence services to compete with ChatGPT.
Today, according to people familiar with the matter, Google has invested nearly $400 million in AI startup Anthropic, which is testing a competitor product to OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT.
Google and Anthropic declined to comment on the investment, but separately announced the partnership. In this partnership, Anthropic will use Google's cloud computing services. As competition in the generative AI space is heating up, the deal marks the latest alliance between tech giants and AI startups.
Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives, Anthropic released a chatbot called Claude in January to test it to compete with OpenAI's popular ChatGPT.
People familiar with the matter said the deal gave Google about a 10 percent stake in Anthropic. Before Google invested, Anthropic had raised more than $700 million in funding.
According to previous reports, Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence (AI) research company. Analysts say the potential deal has the potential to be a defining deal for a new era of AI, but Microsoft has no comment on it.
If Microsoft's bet on the far-reaching impact of AI technology is correct, the deal could also trigger a restructuring in the AI world as other tech companies race to compete for their place in the new frontier of "generative AI."
According to reports, OpenAI has become the focus of global attention because of the launch of an intelligent chatbot system ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that can answer questions and generate text in natural-sounding language. ChatGPT quickly gained attention from Microsoft. Microsoft executives believe that the technology behind the service will soon have a deeper impact on the entire tech world.
Eric Boyd, head of Microsoft's AI platform, said: "These AI models will change the way people interact with computers. Talking to a computer, as natural as talking to a person, will revolutionize the everyday experience people experience using technology. It understands your intentions like never before and then outputs them in a computer-operated way. ”
Microsoft also uses OpenAI technology in some of its products, including the text generation system GPT-3, the image generation system Dall-E 2 and the programming assistance system.
As for the subsequent development of generative AI, interested partners need to keep an eye on it.