Microsoft, Nvidia Commit $15 Billion to OpenAI Rival
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OpenAI. Bloomberg's AI editor Seth Feigman joins us for more. It's a tough time to be announcing that you're going to be buying cloud from one company while they're going to be investing equity in another. Just more circular deals, it feels like.
This one feels very clearly following the OpenAI playbook that we've been seeing in recent weeks here. Yes, I think Anthropic is taking money from Microsoft and NVIDIA. Anthropic then plans to commit spending to Microsoft's platform using NVIDIA chips. Kind of textbook here, and I think we'll add to some of the anxiety there, but it is on a bit of a smaller scale. Also, our understanding at this point is that this financing is part of a larger investment round to be announced at some indeterminate time. So TBD, how much Anthropic is actually planning to bring in here?
I mean, they only just closed a round that valued them at more than $180 billion.
This is the new normal. It's a bottomless need, and everyone is tapping everyone else. All the ships have to rise together or else they fail.
But what's interesting is Amazon had to make clear that they're still the number one provider of cloud and of training compute to Anthropic. Everyone seems to be in Anthropic now, but how are we seeing that rival the likes of OpenAI?
Yeah, I mean, again, this is not an either-or model. It's a yes-and. You know, I think we've seen OpenAI turn to Anthropic's backers, namely Google and Amazon. So Anthropic is... doing the same. Now, there's a lot of intrigue there about what that means about the Microsoft opening our relationship.
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