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Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups
Deals between Google, Microsoft and Amazon and ‘generative AI’ start-ups raise competition concerns
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Google’s recent investment on San Francisco-based Anthropic gave the search giant a 10 per cent stake in the company.
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Madhumita Murgia
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Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both suppliers and competitors in the battle to develop “generative AI”.
Google’s recent US$300 million (S$397 million) bet on San Francisco-based Anthropic is the latest in a string of cloud-related partnerships struck between nascent AI groups and the world’s biggest technology companies.
