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Google to invest fresh US$1 bln in OpenAI rival Anthropic: FT
GOOGLE is making a fresh investment of more than US$1 billion into artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday (Jan 22). Read more at The Business Times.