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Re:Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic by daydream on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:50AM (#34664128)
> Can anyone please explain to me why does Google need to buy companies like Anthropic when they already have DeepMind and Google Brain?

Same reason they have both DeepMind and Google Brain. (I’m guessing)

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Re:Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic by ChuckNorris89 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:52AM (#34664137)
Did any of those acquisitions result in successful Google products, or did Google just buy them so none of their competitors would?
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Re:Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic by 0XYZxyzXYZ0 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:08AM (#34664239)
Seems like the second option to me. I think WaveNet has been integrated into many Google products. Then, Deepmind invested quite a lot in RL-research, with not much real-world use case. And now they are having a major pivot towards LLMs (see their job openings), although apparently 'sparrow' is supposed to be better than GPT-3.
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