Amazon Pumps Billions into AI Firm Just as Chat-GPT Alexa-fies Itself

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These chatbots can't keep their traps shut.

Anthropic, a California-based AI company, announced an agreement Monday with Amazon that will see the e-commerce giant invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, starting out with a casual $1.25 billion. Amazon -- along with every other Zuck, Musk, and Harry -- is trying to get ahead in the generative AI race. It's got its work cut out for it. On Monday, the company that was first out of the gate, OpenAI, said ChatGPT now has the ability to read aloud the text it spins up. Alexa, does that sound familiar to you?

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