Didn’t Amazon invest a total of $8 billion in Anthropic? Seems like a much better choice than trying to do things in-house.

Apple, on the other hand, hasn’t even invested in any of the players.

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rossdavidh 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Was it an investment of actual dollars, or "just" cloud compute credits? Microsoft's investment in OpenAI was over 90% Azure credits, we're told. Which raises the possibility that the whole business is mostly about making your cloud compute business look better than it really is...

	▲	stingraycharles 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Of course it’s probably credits, but it’s still beneficial to both of them — having such huge customers is ideal to stress test your product offering. Also, just yesterday, they appear to have raised $13B from actual investors, so it seems like they’re going to be fine. https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-...

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DSingularity 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s an investment that’s going to be a write off.