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Anthropic Receives A $4 Billion Boost from Amazon

Just a little over a week ago, The Information reported that Amazon was in talks to pump several billion more into the generative AI startup Anthropic.

This past week, as many predicted, a new eye-watering investment came to pass. On Friday, both companies confirmed that Amazon is injecting an additional $4 billion into Anthropic, on the condition that the startup employ AWS as its primary partner for training its foundation models. The deal also stipulates that Anthropic will officially switch to AWS’s training and inferencing chips, Trainium and Inferentia. The startup had previously used Nvidia chips.

On the partnership, Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, said in a statement, “We’re looking forward to working with Amazon to train and power our most advanced AI models using AWS Trainium, and helping to unlock the full potential of their technology."

Anthropic’s foundation models are one of several that AWS offers via its Bedrock service. Its latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, boasts a higher processing speed and performance than OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro. Anthropic was already a rival of these two companies, but this latest investment from Amazon makes the competition even fiercer.

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