Amazon Boosts Investment in AI Startup Anthropic by $2.75 Billion
Amazon Boosts Investment in AI Startup Anthropic by $2.75 Billion
The funding marks Amazon's largest investment in another company since the online retailer was founded nearly 30 years ago. Google agreed last October to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic. By Joseph Pisani
作者：約瑟夫·皮薩尼
$Amazon (AMZN.US)$ said it has invested an additional $2.75 billion in the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic, a major investment from a tech giant looking to compete with $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$, $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ and others in the AI arms race.
$亞馬遜 (AMZN.US)$ 表示已向人工智能初創公司Anthropic額外投資27.5億美元，這是一家希望與之競爭的科技巨頭的重大投資 $微軟 (MSFT.US)$， $谷歌-A (GOOGL.US)$ 以及人工智能軍備競賽中的其他人。
Amazon has now invested a total of $4 billion in Anthropic after making a $1.25 billion initial investment in the company in September. Amazon said it has a minority ownership position in Anthropic.
亞馬遜在9月份對Anthropic進行了12.5億美元的初始投資後，現已向該公司總共投資了40億美元。亞馬遜表示，它在Anthropic擁有少數股權。
The funding marks Amazon's largest investment in another company since the online retailer was founded nearly 30 years ago. Google agreed last October to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic.
這筆資金標誌着亞馬遜自將近30年前在線零售商成立以來對另一家公司的最大一筆投資。谷歌去年10月同意向Anthropic投資高達20億美元。
Tech companies and venture capitalists have been throwing money at AI startups following the success of Open AI's ChatGPT, with investors and analysts increasingly believing the latest boom in AI is sustainable. More than $29 billion was invested in generative AI companies last year, according to research firm PitchBook. Microsoft has agreed to invest $13 billion in OpenAI.
繼Open AI的ChatGPT取得成功之後，科技公司和風險投資家一直在向人工智能初創公司投入資金，投資者和分析師越來越相信人工智能的最新繁榮是可持續的。根據研究公司PitchBook的數據，去年向生成式人工智能公司投資了超過290億美元。微軟已同意向OpenAI投資130億美元。
Anthropic, which was founded in 2021, offers an AI assistant called Claude that competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company is led by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, who both used to work at OpenAI.
Anthropic成立於2021年，提供了一款名爲Claude的人工智能助手，可與OpenAI的ChatGPT競爭。該公司由兄弟姐妹達里奧和丹妮拉·阿莫迪領導，他們都曾在OpenAI工作。
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