Big Tech Investment AI News & Updates
Google's $3 Billion Investment in Anthropic Reveals Deeper Ties Than Previously Known
Recently obtained court documents reveal Google owns a 14% stake in AI startup Anthropic and plans to invest an additional $750 million this year, bringing its total investment to over $3 billion. While Google lacks voting rights or board seats, the revelation raises questions about Anthropic's independence, especially as Amazon has also committed up to $8 billion in funding to the company.
Skynet Chance (+0.03%): The concentration of frontier AI development under the influence of a few large tech companies may reduce diversity of approaches to AI safety and alignment, potentially increasing systemic risk if these companies prioritize commercial objectives over robust safety measures.
Skynet Date (+0 days): While massive funding accelerates capability development, the oversight from established companies with reputational concerns might balance this by imposing some safety standards, resulting in a neutral impact on Skynet timeline pace.
AGI Progress (+0.02%): The massive financial resources being directed to frontier AI companies like Anthropic accelerate capability development through increased compute resources and talent acquisition, though the technical progress itself isn't detailed in this news.
AGI Date (-1 days): The scale of investment ($3+ billion from Google alone) represents significantly larger resources for AGI research than previously known, likely accelerating timelines through increased computing resources, talent recruitment, and experimental capacity.
Amazon Plans $100 Billion AI Investment in 2025 as Big Tech Accelerates Spending
Amazon has announced plans to spend over $100 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, with the vast majority dedicated to AI capabilities for its AWS cloud division. This represents a significant increase from Amazon's $78 billion capex in 2024, and aligns with similar massive AI investments announced by other tech giants including Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft, who are collectively planning to spend hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure.
Skynet Chance (+0.06%): The unprecedented scale of investment in AI infrastructure by multiple tech giants simultaneously will dramatically accelerate AI capabilities development and deployment. This massive increase in computing resources directly enables training of significantly larger and more capable models without proportionate increases in safety research, potentially creating conditions for systems that exceed human control mechanisms.
Skynet Date (-2 days): The collective hundreds of billions being invested in AI infrastructure by major tech companies represents an extraordinary acceleration in the timeline for developing increasingly powerful AI systems. This unprecedented level of capital deployment will dramatically expand available computing resources and enable training of significantly more capable models much sooner than previously anticipated.
AGI Progress (+0.06%): This extraordinary level of investment directly addresses one of the primary bottlenecks in AGI development - computing resources for training and inference. The collective hundreds of billions being deployed by major tech companies will enable training of substantially larger models with more parameters, more extensive training data, and more comprehensive fine-tuning approaches.
AGI Date (-2 days): The extraordinary scale of investment ($100B+ from Amazon alone, with similar amounts from Microsoft, Meta and others) represents a step-change acceleration in AI infrastructure deployment. This massive increase in available computing resources will dramatically compress timelines for training increasingly powerful models by removing key hardware constraints that previously limited development pace.