Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, "Very soon, people will be able to interact directly with our newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search in experimental and innovative ways."

After investing around $400 million in OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Anthropic, Google has announced the release of its own chatbot for the public in "the coming weeks and months" after the remarkable performance and success of ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the use of AI had arrived at an "inflection point" and that the tech giant was "extremely well positioned" to go ahead with the launch in the near future. This comes after the company invested millions of dollars in artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, Anthropic, earlier. Although both organisations have not publicly commented on the investment, Anthropic will use the cloud computing services of Alphabet's Google. 

According to a report by Bloomberg, the partnership will mean developing technology that can help produce text and art in just a few seconds. Even though Google will have a stake in Anthropic, the deal does not mandate the startup to purchase cloud services from Google after spending money from the investment amount.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said, "AI has evolved from academic research to become one of the biggest drivers of technological change, creating new opportunities for growth and improved services across all industries," reported Bloomberg. Kurian also added that Google Cloud is ensuring open infrastructure for the next generation of AI startups. He further said that the partnership with Anthropic is a great example of assisting users and different businesses in terms of tapping into the potential of responsible and reliable AI.

Former leaders of OpnenAI Inc Daniel and Dario Amodei founded Anthropic AI in 2021. In January that year, the start-up also released Claude, a test model of the chatbot, with the goal of giving ChatGPT stiff competition.

The current alliance between Google and Anthropic comes after a high-profile investment of $10 billion in OpenAI by Microsoft.

All these types of alliances mean that established organisations like Microsoft and Google can have access to popular AI platforms. For instance, Google has announced it to extend all the support related to cloud computing areas to Anthropic in the development of AI products and services.

However, the language model assistant of the start-up has not been launched for public use so far. The company has said that it is planning to allow public access to Claude "in the coming months."

Commenting on Google's increased focus on AI, Pichai, said, "I am excited by the AI-driven leaps we are about to unveil in Search and beyond."

Amid all this, Google has also announced plans to release its own chatbot for the public in near future. The move comes after a highly successful performance of ChatGPT. Pichai believes that an inflection point of AI has arrived and that the tech giant is "extremely well positioned" to go ahead with the launch.

According to a report by The Guardian, Pichai was talking about two large language models that have been developed by the company. They are called LaMDA and PaLM, still to be released.

The tech giant has already started to test an AI chatbot, Apprentice Bard, which is similar to ChatGPT. And it reportedly uses LaMDA technology and system. Pichai, said, "We will make these language models available soon in the near future, starting with LaMDA so that people can engage directly with them."

All these language models, including LaMDA and the one that is used by ChatGPT are different types of neural networks. It is used to mimic the brain's underlying architecture in the computer form, which is fed with a huge chunk of texts and words to help them train in generating sentences.

While talking about Google's future chatbot, Pichai, said, "Very soon, people will be able to interact directly with our newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search in experimental and innovative ways."