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Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal
Amazon will add $5 billion now and up to $20 billion more as Anthropic commits to spend more than $100 billion on AWS over 10 years.
- On Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced an agreement to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, adding to $8 billion previously invested, with $5 billion provided immediately and up to $20 billion tied to "certain commercial milestones."
- Anthropic cited "inevitable strain" on its infrastructure caused by surging demand for Claude; to address reliability, the company committed to spend more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years focusing on AWS Trainium chips.
- The agreement secures up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training Claude models; Anthropic will bring nearly 1 gigawatt of Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity online by year-end, supporting the startup's $380 billion valuation.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated the partnership aims to support more than 100,000 customers building on AWS, noting, "Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research."
- Amazon's move follows a $50 billion commitment to rival OpenAI two months prior, while Anthropic continues utilizing Microsoft Azure under a $30 billion compute deal; both race to strengthen infrastructure ahead of potential IPOs.
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Value is added to the US$ 8 bi previously invested by Amazon, which is making bulky bets on the largest artificial intelligence startups
Amazon and Anthropic deepen their relationships. The company founded by Jeff Bezos has announced that the artificial intelligence giant (IA) will invest more than $100 billion over the next 10 years in its cloud technologies from its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this way, both companies will strengthen their relationships, while Claude's creator will ensure the necessary capacity to boost their models.
Amazon will invest an additional $5 billion in the capital of the young company of artificial intelligence (AI) generative Anthropic, of which it was already a shareholder, and plans to inject, in the longer term, another $20 billion, according to a press release published on Monday.
Amazon and Anthropic are deepening their business relationships: the online retailer puts up to 25 billion dollars in the AI company, which in turn could spend a lot of money on Amazon services over the next ten years.
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