EP-235 Google’s $3b Bet on Anthropic 🤖, Meta’s Custom Ai Chip 🧩, Openai’s New Business Tools 🚀

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welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for wednesday, march 12th! explore today's important tech developments:

• google's strategic ai move: google invests $3 billion in ai startup anthropic, securing a 14% stake, further fueling discussions about tech giants' influence. an additional $750 million investment is planned this year, paralleling amazon's investment trends.
• meta's ai chip innovation: meta tests a custom-designed ai training chip with tsmc, moving towards reducing dependence on suppliers like nvidia. limited deployment underway, potential for expanded use to optimize capital expenditure.
• openai's new business tools: launch of openai's responses api empowers businesses to develop ai agents with web search and file scanning capabilities, marking a shift from its previous assistants api and aiming for workforce integration by 2025.
• apple's upcoming design overhaul: anticipated design changes in ios, ipados, and macos inspired by the vision pro vr headset, focusing on refreshed icons, menus, and navigation, to be revealed at the upcoming wwdc in june.

join us again tomorrow for more tech updates!

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