OpenAI Rival Anthropic Defends Partnerships With Amazon, Google

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said its decision to partner with both Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. ensures it can maintain more “independence” than if it were reliant on one large tech firm, as is the case with rival OpenAI.

“That independence and that choice is one thing that I think differentiates Anthropic from some of these other deals,” Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s co-founder and chief executive officer, said in an interview Thursday at the Bloomberg Technology Summit.

Google, Amazon and Microsoft Corp. have invested billions in leading AI startups, providing vital financing and cloud computing support to build ...