Players Anthropic AND OpenAI we still remain in the background when it involves news that makes headlines.
Anthropic, A ChatGPT rival with his AI assistant Claude apparently securing a latest $1 billion investment from a previous investor Google.
In October 2023, Google invested $2 billion in rival OpenAI.
The latest financing also comes just weeks after it became available reported the startup was in advanced talks to lift $2 billion in a deal led by Partners of the Lightspeed enterprise that might value it at $60 billion. Anthropic was last valued at $18.5 billion in February last yr.
This deal also comes just two months later Amazon agreed to speculate another $4 billion in the AI startup. The deal follows Amazon’s 2023 announcement of an investment of as much as $4 billion in Anthropic – a deal that gave the Seattle-based e-commerce and cloud titan a minority stake in the startup.
That’s not all
The news about Anthropic comes just after OpenAI made waves when the White House announced a latest partnership between ChatGPT developer SoftBank AND Oracle to assist build data centers and AI infrastructure price between $100 billion and $500 billion.
The latest enterprise was called Project Stargate.
Billions of dollars have been allocated to build latest data centers for artificial intelligence initiatives. Last yr, Amazon said it plans to speculate $100 billion in AI data centers over the next decade, while OpenAI and Microsoft joined the joint data center project, i.e is expected to cost $100 billion.