Is Google Investing $300 Million in Anthropic?

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The Financial Times reported that Google is investing $300 million in anthropic at a $3 billion valuation giving Google a 10% stake. According to other reports, anthropic is planning to develop an intelligent chatbot called Claude, which will rival open AI's chat GPT. It has not yet been released publicly, but here it's worth noting that Google is also reportedly working on its own chatbot called Apprentice Bard.

Molly breaks down Google’s $300M investment in Anthropic and how this deal compares to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. (2:00) Then, she dives deep into a former Google executive’s paid search engine and ShiftMed raising $200M to solve the nursing shortage. She wraps the show with an interview featuring the CEO of dating app So Syncd, Jessica Alderson. (13:44)

(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(2:00) Google invests $300M in Anthropic

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(13:44) Neeva’s new approach to search

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(22:58) AI’s data problem

(28:27) ShiftMed raises $200M

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(34:45) Seed/Series A Interview: Jessica Alderson, CEO of So Syncd

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