What is Anthropic doing, the Italian-American startup that throws itself into the AI race with Claude

12 August 20239 months ago babelfish

It's only a newcomer to the field of generative AI, but it's already raised a lot of money from big investors, including Google. It will be because the founders of Anthropic come from the OpenAi of ChatGpt…

There are also two Italian-Americans in the race for the most…intelligent AI that sees Sam Altman 's OpenAi (with Microsoft subsidising), Google's Bard, the various Chinese proposals and obviously Elon Musk 's “philosophical” answer getting out of the way. They are Dario and Daniela Amodei , who spent a good part of their career in OpenAi before deciding to start their own business with Anthropic.

WHEN AND HOW ANTHROPIC WAS BORN

The solo regatta in the magnum sea of artificial intelligence for the two Amodeis began in December 2020 when Dario and Daniela left OpenAI, a company that in two years' time we will all know for ChatGpt and for the heavy investments of Microsoft, to found the their startup, Anthropic.

THE CV OF THE TWO AMODEI

In OpenAi Dario covered the role of vice president of research while Daniela was vice president of security. For some, starting their own business in the same period in which the software house led by Sam Altman "explodes" as the revelation of the year does not denote great timing.

Also because the Amodei brothers certainly knew, given their positions, what was boiling in the pot. They hadn't known it, however, they were the same if necessary, given that the news was public, that a year earlier Microsoft had invested 1 billion in the company .

WHO HAS ALREADY BETTED ON IT

It is not known whether the two have eaten their hands or are still convinced of the choice made. What is certain is that in May 2023 their CV convinces Spark Capital with the participation of Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures and other investors to invest $450 million in the young woman's capital in a series C financing round That's nothing compared to the other 10 billion that Microsoft returned to ChatGpt earlier this year, but it's still a significant nest egg.

HERE IS CLAUDE, INDEED, CLAUDE 2

In fact, the capital will mainly be used to support the development of Claude, the artificial intelligence chat which, not surprisingly, is destined to challenge ChatGpt. Already in February, Google, therefore determined not to leave only Bard in the field, had invested another 300 million dollars in Anthropic.

Also in May, Eric Yuan's Zoom Video Communication said it had invested a large but top-secret sum and that it will integrate the startup's technology into its video conferencing platform that rivals that of Microsoft.

Funds that have allowed the young software house to launch Claude 2 in the last few hours, the second version of the chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence. According to Anthropic, this new virtual interlocutor promises greater performance and more limited possibilities of generating false or harmful content.

In short, the match for the most performing AI has not only just begun, but continues to gather an ever-increasing number of challengers, as demonstrated by the recent entry into the field of Elon Musk who in the past financed OpenAI itself, except for falling in love of the project just before the bang…

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/cosa-fa-anthropic-la-startup-italo-americana-che-si-getta-nella-corsa-dellia-con-claude/ on Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:54:03 +0000.