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Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic by tjpnz on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:28PM (#38051066)
A common failure mode for startups and a reminder of how universal those lessons are. Whether it would be the death knell of Google we'll have to wait a bit longer.
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Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic by sangnoir on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:34PM (#38051785)
> Whether it would be the death knell of Google we'll have to wait a bit longer.

I don't understand the trope on HN that OpenAI is a competitor to Google. I do not think Google has the appetite or DNA to be purely an AI API vendor; I don't think selling APIs is as profitable as Google current business. Google investing in Anthropic is a good, cheap hedge against the low-probability (IMO) event that LLMs somehow displace the search results page and display ads.

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