# Microsoft and Nvidia Invest Up to $15 Billion in AI firm Anthropic
The American software company Microsoft and the chip manufacturer Nvidia are investing up to $15 billion (roughly CZK 313 billion) in the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. the companies announced this in a joint press release on Tuesday declaration. The investments are part of Microsoft and Nvidia’s new strategic partnerships with Anthropic, a competitor of OpenAI, with which Microsoft and Nvidia also cooperate.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees.Its flagship product is the chatbot Claude, which was launched in 2023 and has since become a competitor to models such as ChatGPT from OpenAI or Gemini from Google.
According to today’s report, Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while Nvidia’s investment will amount to up to $10 billion. Among other things, the strategic partnership agreements envisage Anthropic buying cloud services from Microsoft for $30 billion.”We will be more and more mutual customers. We will use Anthropic’s models, they will use our infrastructure,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. However, he pointed out that OpenAI will continue to be Microsoft’s key partner in the field of AI.