VCs Break Taboo by Backing Both Anthropic, OpenAI in AI Battle

Those investors join JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s growth equity investing arm, which holds stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Iconiq, an Anthropic investor that gained a stake in OpenAI after the AI giant acquired one of its portfolio companies, Statsig.Some of the AI industry’s biggest backers are betting on both OpenAI and Anthropic. Tech giants Amazon.com Inc., Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have all discussed plans to invest in both companies, Bloomberg has reported. Blackstone Inc., the world’s lar ...