Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

Re:Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's bigge... by crowcroft on Friday November 22, 2024 @03:56PM (#42217306)

So we have

Microsoft -> OpenAI (& Inflection AI) Google -> Gemini (and a bit of Anthropic) Amazon -> Anthropic Meta -> Llama

Is big tech good for the startup ecosystem, or are they monopolies eating everything (or both?). To be fair to Google and Meta they came up with a lot of the stuff in the first place, and aren't just buying the competition.

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Re:Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's bigge... by gabes on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:04PM (#42217357)

Meta doesn’t buy competition?

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Re:Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's bigge... by airstrike on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:24PM (#42217485)

Facebook / Instagram?

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Re:Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's bigge... by oefnak on Saturday November 23, 2024 @03:03AM (#42219761)

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Re:Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's bigge... by sangnoir on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:41PM (#42217593)

There wouldn't be an LLM startup ecosystem without big tech.

Notable contributions: Nvidia for, well, (gestures at everything), Google for discovering (inventing?) transformers, being early advocates of ML, authoring tensorflow, Meta for Torch and open sourcing Llama, Microsoft for investing billions in OpenAI early on and keeping the hype alive. The last one is a reach, I'm sure Microsoft Research did some cool things I'm unaware of.

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Re:Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's bigge... by crowcroft on Friday November 22, 2024 @06:58PM (#42218341)

You might be right, we don’t know how an alternative reality would have played out though to say if this is the only way (and fastest) way we could have got here.

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