The rapid development of AI systems over the past two years has stretched American infrastructure, with data centres emerging as a particular bottleneck. Cutting-edge chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude require enormous amounts of data and computing power to train and run.

The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8bn from Amazon, the ecommerce group’s largest-ever venture investment, announced over the past 18 months. Amazon is also working to embed the Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.

Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into AI startup Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. This comes after Reuters and other media reported earlier in January that Anthropic was nearing a $2 billion fundraise in a round,

The cash infusion comes on top of the $2 billion that Google has already provided to the artificial intelligence developer. Separately, Anthropic is said to be raising $2 billion from a group of institutional investors led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The latter deal is expected to value the company at $60 billion.

The Stargate project, announced at the White House, involves an initial investment of $100bn, with plans to increase this to $500bn over the next four years.

OpenAI, as you likely know, is one of tech’s biggest unicorns. A group of entrepreneurs and researchers, including Elon Musk and the company’s current CEO Sam Altman, founded the artificial intelligence company in 2015.

OpenAI has told an Indian court that any order to remove training data powering its ChatGPT service would be inconsistent with its legal obligations in the United States, according to a recent filing seen by Reuters.

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

This deal is part of a broader partnership between the two organizations and is the first time OpenAI will directly fund a newsroom.

In a Delhi court, OpenAI argues that removing ChatGPT training data breaches US laws amid ANI's lawsuit over unauthorised content use.

Google (GOOGL) is investing a further $1B into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, The Financial Times’ George Hammond, Madhumitda Murgia, and Arash

Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into AI startup Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.