Amazon's AI Investment and OpenAI's GPT Challenges

There’s a new king of the AI hill as Anthropic bests OpenAI for the first time. Amazon invests more in Anthropic and is investing a TON more in datacenters. Is that GPT sort of App Store not exactly catching fire? A big acquisition in gaming. And the tiny Caribbean island nation that is one of the biggest winners of the AI moment so far.

Links:

• “The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time (ArsTechnica)
• Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (CNBC)
• Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s app store draws investors and students seeking artificial aids (FT)
• Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans ‘parts pairing’ (The Verge)
• Take-Two Buys Gearbox From Embracer, Confirms Development on New Borderlands Game (IGN)
• The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla (NYTimes)

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