Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by jatins on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:42AM (#37640980)

At this point Apple is the only BigTech without any major investment in LLMs. Which isn't too surprising, they have historically never jumped on the shiny new thing until the dust clears off.

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by AraceliHarker on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:02AM (#37641126)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861763/apple-ai-language...

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by digitcatphd on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:44AM (#37640988)

I do suspect they are making internal investments. The latest iOS update has substantially improved speech to text capabilities.

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by djjzjshdhhd on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:18AM (#37641242)

Exactly OP's point. STT/TTS is such an old technology at this point.

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by jsemrau on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:19AM (#37641587)

Given that I unsuccessfully applied for AIML Annotation roles at Apple for years, I also believe they are building similar tech with internal talent.

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by exitb on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:08AM (#37641174)

Their new autocorrect is based around LLM. Not sure if it's a major investment, but it is a real product.

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by quickthrower2 on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:01AM (#37641115)

Apple makes shiny new things once in a while. Maybe they are not so good at catch up so plan to keep excelling at non AI shiny things (there is a lot of money in the not AI niche!)

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by yieldcrv on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:08AM (#37641180)

erm misconception.

Apple hasn’t released a dedicated chatbot but they use models heavily and in very targeted ways

all the iPhones have had a transformer co-processor for several generations, the neutral engine is primed for use with this current crop with just a little more dedicated ram to it

this is arguably better than the pick me chatbot thing

but Apple is also primed to disrupt all of that, they include a fine tuned model chatbot style client side on all their OS’ and that substantially shifts the battlefield, a smart client side siri that only optionally connects to a large cloud model? even better

an SDK for all the AI startups to leverage that instead of token price arbitraging with OpenAI api or other cloud providers like replicate? all hail the Apple supremacy

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by djjzjshdhhd on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:19AM (#37641248)

/s ?

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Re:Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic by yieldcrv on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:31AM (#37641321)

it will feel like Apple supremacy to all of YC’s portfolio companies

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