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Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic by zooq_ai on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:39AM (#38049708)
Google Cloud and Google DeepMind have different goals.

The goal of Cloud is to sell as much compute as possible to the rest of the world. So, they want as many foundational models that are running on their cloud.

Since OpenAI is married to Azure, Google and Amazon are trying hard to get the remaining. Of course GCP can just bet on Gemini, but if you are the head of GCP you wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. I mean the essence of cloud is redundancy and load distribution. It applies to business strategies too

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Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic by Yoric on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:23AM (#38050040)
Interesting take.

I was analyzing this as not putting all your eggs in one basket in terms of AI capabilities, but you are right that it's probably also true in terms of cloud sales.

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