Google To Invest Up To $40 Billion In Anthropic
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/24/1933253/google-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic
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> Anthropic said the agreement expands on a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Earlier this month, Anthropic secured 5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity as part of [2]an announcement with Google and Broadcom that will start to come online next year. Anthropic could decide to add additional gigawatts of compute in the future.
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> [...] The relationship between the two companies (Google and Anthropic) dates back to 2023, when Google invested $300 million in the AI lab for a stake of about 10%. Months later, Google poured in another $2 billion. Ahead of Friday's announcement, Google's investment in Anthropic exceeded $3 billion, and it reportedly owned a 14% stake in the company. Now, the leading tech companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in the frontier AI labs -- OpenAI and Anthropic -- in funding rounds that far exceed any prior investments in startups. Much of that investment will return in the form of revenue.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic-as-search-giant-spreads-its-ai-bets.html
[2] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/07/175246/anthropic-reveals-30-billion-run-rate-plans-to-use-35gw-of-new-google-ai-chips
I feel like all this money is just funny money (Score:4, Insightful)
I invest in you, you buy from me, They invest in you, you buy from them.... and still prices go up and services go away.
There is definitely some of that (Score:2)
Patrick Boyle covered it where a bunch of companies are just kind of passing around about $300 billion dollars between them without actually generating any new revenue or products.
But there is definitely real things happening. Massive data centers are being built with the idea that they will be coming online to take over all of our jobs. There is some evidence that when those data centers come online that the models are going to get orders of magnitude better and we're going to start seeing a lot more l
"Up to" (Score:1)
Eagerly anticipating the banal remark that technically everyone is investing up to $40 billion, because 0 is "up to"
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Well, sure it's banal to make that comment NOW. I've already done it!
Anyway, it may be banal, but it's important to keep pointing it out. Because they keep fucking reporting about "up to" this and "up to" that. It's like how nobody ever gets the maximum sentence for a crime, but that's what people think from the headlines.
Hey, brother, can you spare a wispy hay-head? (Score:3)
Say what you want about the Trump Trillion-Dollar Coin, but it's been really convenient for all these AI companies to pass back and forth and pretend it's in all their bank accounts at once.
Well, this is a new one for me.... (Score:2)
The editors forgot the entire Slashdot story.
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Nope. New anti-adblock measure I guess. Literally turned it on while I was browsing.
Now when I go back and look at the last story I was reading on and refresh it disappears, too.
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Ads? New ads ?? Never have seen ads in /. appear using Librewolf browser. I believe UBO is ON by default.
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I might check my custom filters, as I had a few set up for Slashdot to remove the ads that were still there even after normal uBO went over it, and maybe they have changed the layout code in some way where the story is in the same element as an ad section I'd removed.
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For me, uBO works okay but I have to turn it off whenever I have a message about a moderation or reply, else I can't get to it....