AI’s proxy war heats up as Google reportedly backs Anthropic with $2B


Google has reportedly invested $2 billion in artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, joining tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon in backing AI leaders. The investment, which includes $500 million now and up to $1.5 billion later, is part of a developing proxy war between rival companies vying for dominance in the AI space. Anthropic, which specializes in large language models, plans to use the funding to build and deploy these AI models at scale.
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