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South Korea's SK Telecom bets big on AI with $100 million investment in Anthropic

Matthias Bastian
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Aug 14, 2023

SK Telecom invests $100 million in AI company Anthropic, joining investors including Google and Spark Capital. Anthropic develops basic AI models and competes with OpenAI. The Korean telco is working with Anthropic to develop a global telecom-focused, multilingual, large language model and AI platform. Anthropic recently released Claude 2, a chatbot on par with GPT-3.5, but with about 6x the context window. Anthropic also offers a faster, less powerful, but cheaper chatbot with Claude 1.2.

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