Amazon Invests $4 Billion More in Anthropic, Making AWS Its Primary Cloud Partner

Technology News

Amazon Invests $4 Billion More in Anthropic, Making AWS Its Primary Cloud Partner
AmazonAnthropicAI
  • 📰 CNBC
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 45 sec. here
  • 10 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 49%
  • Publisher: 72%

Amazon continues to bolster its commitment to artificial intelligence with a significant investment in Anthropic, a leading AI startup. The partnership designates AWS as Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner, providing access to cutting-edge hardware and infrastructure.

Amazon announced on Friday a further $4 billion investment in Anthropic , the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI researchers. This brings Amazon 's total investment to $8 billion, although Amazon will maintain its minority investor status. Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) will also become Anthropic 's primary cloud and training partner. Anthropic will utilize AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its largest AI models.

Anthropic is the company behind Claude, a chatbot that, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, has gained significant popularity. The partnership will grant AWS customers early access to Anthropic's fine-tuning capabilities with Claude, allowing them to customize the chatbot with their own data. This unique benefit was highlighted in a company blog post. Amazon's $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic in March was the company's largest external investment in its three-decade history. The companies previously announced a significant milestone: AI agents capable of completing complex tasks like humans using a computer. Anthropic's new Computer Use capability, integrated into its two latest AI models, enables its technology to interpret computer screens, select buttons, enter text, navigate websites, and execute tasks through any software and real-time internet browsing

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

CNBC /  🏆 12. in US

Amazon Anthropic AI Investment AWS Cloudcomputing Chatbots Computeruse

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Anthropic will use AWS AI chips after $4 billion Amazon investmentAnthropic will use AWS AI chips after $4 billion Amazon investmentAfter double majoring in unemployment (English and Art History), Igor’s career prospects were, to say the least, limited. It was either become a teacher or a writer. Thankfully, he went with the latter.
Read more »

Amazon Invests Another $4B In AI Firm AnthropicAmazon Invests Another $4B In AI Firm AnthropicThe tech giant poured $2.75 billion in the generative AI company just six months ago.
Read more »

Amazon to invest another $4 billion in OpenAI rival AnthropicAmazon to invest another $4 billion in OpenAI rival AnthropicWith this latest announcement, Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic comes to $8 billion. The new version of Alexa is reportedly powered by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model.
Read more »

Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup AnthropicAmazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup AnthropicAmazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI.
Read more »

Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup AnthropicAmazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup AnthropicAmazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI. This will bring Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic – which began last year - to $8 billion.
Read more »

Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup AnthropicAmazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup AnthropicAmazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI.
Read more »



Render Time: 2025-02-21 01:02:59