Anthropic, an AI startup known for its chatbot Claude, has recently secured a two billion dollar investment from Google. This follows Google’s initial investment of approximately $300 million in February 2023. The investment is strategic for Google to break the currently overpowering duo of OpenAI and Microsoft, who together dominate the chatbot and LLM-API market. Microsoft has an advantage over its competitors and OpenAI itself in that it can offer other AI models in addition to its market-leading GPT models. The investment in Anthropic comes from Google’s cloud business, which seeks at least a similar status to Microsoft.