alt Hacker NewsDidn’t Amazon invest a total of $8 billion in Anthropic? Seems like a much better choice than trying to do things in-house.
Apple, on the other hand, hasn’t even invested in any of the players.
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DSingularity • today at 1:22 AM
That’s an investment that’s going to be a write off.
Was it an investment of actual dollars, or "just" cloud compute credits? Microsoft's investment in OpenAI was over 90% Azure credits, we're told. Which raises the possibility that the whole business is mostly about making your cloud compute business look better than it really is...