Microsoft and Nvidia plan to invest billions of dollars in Anthropic in a new partnership that also sees chatbot creator Claude commit to investing $30 billion in purchasing Microsoft’s cloud services in the latest high-profile deal in the AI sector.
Tuesday’s announcement reinforces the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for computing power, as companies compete to build systems capable of rivaling or surpassing human intelligence.
The news comes just weeks after OpenAI announced a $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon.com, in its first major step toward boosting its AI ambitions, following a restructuring last week that gave the ChatGPT creator greater operational and financial freedom.
