Google Deepens Foray Into AI, Invests in Artificial Intelligence Startup Anthropic

As part of its plan to deepen its foray into generative AI, tech giant Google has invested $300 Million into Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic.

According to the deal, the startup has agreed to purchase some of Google’s services to support its technology, which will see Anthropic use Google Cloud to train, scale and deploy its AI systems.

The partnership is designed so that both companies can co-develop AI computing systems.

Speaking on the partnership, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian wrote via a tweet, “Today’s announcement with Anthropic AI is another great example of the ecosystem of AI startups leveraging Google Cloud’s reliable and open infrastructure to build their businesses.”

Also commenting on the partnership is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei who said, “we are partnering with Google Cloud to support the next phase of Anthropic where we are going to deploy our AI systems to a larger set of people. This partnership gives us the cloud infrastructure performance and scale we need.

“We are eager to use Google cloud infrastructure to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. This partnership with Google Cloud will let us build a more robust AI platform”.

Founded in 2021, Investors King understands that the AI startup began deploying its technology publicly in January this year, which saw it start with a language model assistant named “Claude”. Anthropic have conducted research into making systems that are more steerable, robust, and interpretable.

Last year, the startup raised $580 million in series B funding led by Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. The company disclosed that the fundraised will be used to explore the predictable scaling properties of machine learning systems, while closely examining the unpredictable ways in which capabilities and safety issues can emerge at scale.

The startup currently has a growing team of around 40 people based in its plant-filled office in San Francisco, California, with plans to expand further this year.

On the other hand, reports reveal that Google is rushing to release its artificial intelligence products in the wake of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The tech giant is reportedly working hard and fast on a “code red” effort to respond to OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT, with a large language chatbot, and testing new ways to incorporate that AI-powered bot into search.