The French IT consulting firm is framing the acquisition as an AI play.
Data agents could help with self-serve analytics but poses a risk of lock-in, say analysts.
Anthropic is speaking out against a proposed ban on Google investing in AI firms, one of the remedies sought by the US government after the company was found guilty of anticompetitive practices in the markets for search and text advertising.
The company faces a separate probe from a French antitrust watchdog over allegations of degrading search results when smaller firms use its Bing search engine.
While some experts believe the ban would be limited to the consumer-facing app running the model, others believe enterprises should stick to a private deployment to safeguard investments.
Both OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly probing the Chinese startup to check if it accessed and used OpenAI’s technology to build its R1 reasoning large language model.
According to OpenAI, o1 performs similarly to PhD students on challenging benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry, and biology, and even excels in math and coding.
The Llama family of large language models has seen a ten-fold growth in downloads year-on-year, according to Meta.
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