Technology giant Google (Alphabet) intends to invest up to 40 billion dollars in AI company Anthropic. This cements Google’s position as one of the company’s most important strategic backers and places it among a remarkable circle of investors that includes, among others, Amazon and Microsoft. The Google–Anthropic alliance is clearly aimed at current market leader OpenAI, which is approaching one billion users with ChatGPT. While Google attacks the B2C market with Gemini, Anthropic has already