Amazon pours more money into Anthropic, invests $4 billion
Amazon has poured another $4 billion into AI start-up Anthropic, following an initial $4 billion investment in September last year. The move makes the e-commerce and cloud computing giant the primary cloud services provider and training partner.
The two companies announced a partnership in September last year. Amazon invested $4 billion in exchange for a minority stake in Anthropic and being named their primary cloud provider. This was followed by the adoption of Anthropic's large language model Claude in AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Amazon Bedrock, a service that offers multiple AI models to clients from companies like Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and more.
Amazon announced that Anthropic will use its AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and build future AI models. Anthropic is working closely with Annapurna Labs, part of AWS, for the "development and optimization of future generations of Trainium accelerators."
Anthropic will also write low-level kernels that would give them greater control over Trainium chips. They will contribute to the AWS Neuron software to enhance Trainium. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, wrote the company was "impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and commitment to responsible development of generative AI."
