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.

Google has agreed to a new investment of more than $1 billion in generative AI startup Anthropic. TakeAway Points: Google has agreed to make a new investment of over $1 billion in the generative AI startup Anthropic,

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 investment is said to be separate from Anthropic's ongoing $2bn fundraising round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8 billion 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 $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic, boosting its position in the start-up as Silicon Valley titans rush to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems.

The new funding builds on Google’s past investments of $2 billion in Anthropic and 10% ownership stake in the startup, as well as a large

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has deepened its commitment to artificial intelligence (AI) by investing an additional $1 billion in Anthropic, a

Google has announced another $1 billion investment into Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the AI company to $3 billion. That’s still peanuts compared to Amazon’s total $8 billion investment in Anthropic.