Google makes another investment of more than $1 billion in Anthropic, one of OpenAI's main competitors in the field of artificial intelligence. The company has previously invested about $2 billion in the startup. This was reported by the Financial Times.
In addition to this, Anthropic is on the verge of receiving another $2 billion from Silicon Valley venture capital investors. The new round of investment will be led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in a separate deal that could triple the startup's valuation to $60 billion.
Besides Google, the startup's main investor is Amazon, which has invested about $8 billion in Anthorpic over the past 18 months. The company also plans to use Claude's models in the next generation of the Alexa assistant.
Google and Amazon's investment in Anthropic, as well as Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, has raised many questions for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which launched a separate investigation into these collaborations earlier this year. However, with Donald Trump coming to power, Lina Khan, the previous head of the FTC, will step down, giving companies more freedom to strengthen ties and partnerships.
At the end of 2024, Anthropic introduced a desktop version of its Claude chatbot for Windows and macOS. Also, the company was one of the first in the industryto train its models to use computers.