Amazon invests additional $2.75B in Anthropic

Amazon stated: “The work Amazon and Anthropic are doing together to bring the most advanced generative artificial intelligence, or generative AI, technologies to customers worldwide is only beginning. As part of a strategic collaborative agreement, we and Anthropic announced that Anthropic is using Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development. Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy its future models and has made a long-term commitment to provide AWS customers around the world with access to future generations of its foundation models on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s fully managed service that provides secure, easy access to the industry’s widest choice of high-performing, fully managed foundation models, along with the most compelling set of features – including best-in-class retrieval augmented generation, guardrails, model evaluation, and AI-powered agents – that help customers build highly-capable, cost-effective, low latency generative AI applications… Deepening our commitment to advancing generative AI, today we have an update on the announcement we made to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic for a minority ownership position in the company. Last September, we made an initial investment of $1.25 billion. Today, we made our additional $2.75 billion investment, bringing our total investment in Anthropic to $4 billion.”