Amazon Invests Another $4B In AI Firm Anthropic

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Amazon said it will invest $8 billion in AI firm Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the company to $8 billion over just the past few months.

The companies teamed up last September, with Amazon putting in $4 billion and Anthropic naming Amazon Web Services its primary cloud provider.’ The new agreement will see Anthropic name Amazon’s AWS as its primary training partner, in addition to continuing to be its primary cloud provider.

The company will also use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future AI models. The partnership will also give customers of AWS early access to the ability to fine-tune their own data on Anthropic models, the companies said in a press release.

Anthropic is known as the company behind Claude, a family of large-language models. The deal comes as a wide range of businesses across most parts of the economy (particularly the tech sector) have been pouring billions into AI. “The response from AWS customers who are developing generative AI applications powered by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock has been remarkable,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said. “By continuing to deploy Anthropic models in Amazon Bedrock and collaborating with Anthropic on the development of our custom Trainium chips, we’ll keep pushing the boundaries of what customers can achieve with generative AI technologies.