Big Tech firms are investing tens of billions of dollars into leading artificial intelligence labs to dominate the sector. These capital injections aim to secure control over the foundational platforms of the emerging AI economy.
Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI to integrate AI technology across its product suite. This partnership secures Microsoft’s position as a primary partner. The deal also solidifies OpenAI’s reliance on Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure.
Amazon and Google are backing Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, to counter Microsoft’s influence. Amazon committed up to $8 billion to host Anthropic’s models on its AWS cloud service. Google has invested more than $3 billion into the AI startup.