**Google to Acquire Anthropic, a Leading AI Research Company**
**Acquisition to Accelerate Progress in Large Language Models and Generative AI**
**Mountain View, Calif. – February 4, 2023** – Google today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The acquisition will bring together Anthropic’s expertise in large language models (LLMs) and generative AI with Google’s world-class infrastructure and applied research capabilities.
Anthropic is a pioneer in the development of LLMs, which are powerful AI models that can understand and generate human-like text, translate languages, write different forms of creative content, and perform many other tasks. Anthropic’s flagship LLM, Gemini, has demonstrated exceptional performance on a wide range of natural language processing tasks.
The acquisition will enable Google to accelerate its progress in generative AI, an emerging field of AI that has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with technology. Generative AI models can create new content, such as images, music, and video, from scratch. They can also be used to develop new applications, such as personalized assistants, chatbots, and language translation tools.
**Commenting on the acquisition, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said:**
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