They just announced their new chip, and they are the ones created transformers yet investing this amount in a competitor?
I don’t know what to make of it
Why do you think Google considers Anthropic a competitor?
It makes every bit as much sense as investing in Snap while still operating their own social network product. Seems to have worked out fine (for Google, not Snap).
Given that anthropic is probably paying it all back to them in compute bills, they may not be giving them anything.
hedge your bets, I know I would
I wonder if Google regrets publishing that article on transformers.