It came as a bit of a shocker to learn that Jeff Bezos, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder and one of the world’s richest men, is getting back to it with the recent founding of his new AI startup named Project Prometheus,

On Tuesday, Microsoft and Nvidia announced plans to invest in Anthropic under a new partnership that includes a $30 billion commitment by the Claude maker to use Microsoft’s cloud services. Nvidia will commit up to $10 billion to Anthropic and Microsoft up to $5 billion, with both companies investing in Anthropic’s next funding round.

OpenAI competitor Anthropic on Tuesday committed to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure compute capacity and use up to 1 gigawatt of data center infrastructure based on Nvidia platforms as part of larger strategic partnerships.

After OpenAI's recent corporate restructuring, the two renewed their deal: Microsoft keeps IP rights through 2032, even for post-AGI models, and they've agreed that an independent panel gets to referee whether AGI actually happens.

Microsoft’s partnership with Nvidia and Anthropic continues the incestuous couplings that may force changes in how IT makes AI choices.

Anthropic launched two new AI courses on Coursera: one for developers and one for working professionals looking to learn how to use Claude.