VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon’s ownership in Anthropic.
Source: techcrunch.com
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon’s ownership in Anthropic.
Source: techcrunch.com
Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper “fast mode” tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale work. The model is available immediately across Anthropic’s surfaces — claude.ai, Claude…
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Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more than 743,000 people – roughly equivalent to the population of Denver. The sheer scale of the rollout is truly a show of force, for Microsoft claims…
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Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders. Per Crunchbase data, a majority of the most active venture investors in Q3 participated in more deals compared to the prior quarter. This includes…