Sam Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up that took the world by storm thanks to the screaming success of ChatGPT. Tech giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) was quick to invest a reported $10 billion in OpenAI in January, forming a strategic partnership and elevating Altman to his status as the top dog in AI.

Fellow tech giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) might have missed the boat on OpenAI, but it's making a bet of its own. On Sept. 25, the company announced that it was investing up to $4 billion in AI start-up Anthropic, led by up-and-coming AI power duo Dario and Daniela Amodei.

Consumer-facing AI product ChatGPT is built using AI models from OpenAI. When Microsoft partnered with the start-up, part of the deal was to bring these models to its cloud-computing platform Azure. And the integration of these AI models has been a huge success.

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