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by spindump893019 hours ago |
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upvoteby palmotea18 hours ago|
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The puzzling thing is why Google would try to help with that. Aren't they competitors? Wouldn't they want their competitor to have problems?

It's more understanding for Amazon or Microsoft to make such an investment, because they're not as competitive in the model space.

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upvoteby bmurphy197618 hours ago|
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There's always three:

   Google buys Anthropic.
   Microsoft buys Open AI (or vice versa depending on how things go).
   SpaceGrok buys Cursor, limps along in 3rd place.
   Meta is the last man standing, get's stuck with Oracle, dies.
And then hopefully some open source models save us from this nightmare before China commadatises everything.

Edit: I forgot Amazon. Who knows what they will do. They're the wildcard anyway.

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upvoteby _puk16 hours ago|
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OpenAI buying Microsoft.. I honestly think I'd like to see that.

Anything to invigorate the desktop.

Microsoft buying OpenAI.. 10 minutes later it's rebranded Copilot.. and.. nothing much changes in the world. Oh, except all the AI improvements are around Enterprise governance.

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upvoteby mchusma18 hours ago|
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Google owned 14ish percent of Anthropic before this investment, so presumably this could bring it up to as much as 25%?
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upvoteby michelb18 hours ago|
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Deepmind is heavily using Claude. This could help secure computing power.
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upvoteby tomrod17 hours ago|
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I'm not up to date, I think. How so?
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upvoteby michelb8 hours ago|
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There's been a spat between some people on X, about how few engineers inside Google want to work with Gemini, given that it apparently is not great with code, and they would rather use Claude.

This same sentiment is there within Deepmind, except they have more power it seems. Perhaps Google is hedging their bet?

Best non-X link I could find: https://benzatine.com/news-room/internal-strife-at-google-th...

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upvoteby morelikeborelax18 hours ago|
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What if Google can't compete? They don't want to be left behind and all this money being throw around is just nonsense anyway.
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upvoteby infecto17 hours ago|
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Google was already an investor in Anthropic but I don’t think they are truly competitors in this space.
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upvoteby littlestymaar16 hours ago|
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> the efficiency changes that have created this perceived downtrend in claude quality”

Why the euphemism? What Anthropic did was an aggressive degradation of their model to save compute, and it's not just “perceived downtrend”, Anthropic themselves have acknowledged the quality of service degradation.

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