Amazon Pours Another $4 Billion Into Anthropic AI

The new investment brings Amazon’s total stake to $8 billion, with Anthropic now using Amazon Web Services as its “primary training partner”

An exterior view shows an Amazon fulfillment center on March 31, 2021 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Amazon is investing another $4 billion in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company that rivals OpenAI and is led by several of its former employees, the company announced Friday. The $4 billion investment brings Amazon’s total stake in Anthropic to $8 billion, as it battles other major tech giants like Microsoft in the budding AI sector.

As part of the new deal, Amazon said in a blog post that Anthropic would use Amazon Web Services as its “primary training partner.” The deepening relationship between the two companies comes a few months after Reuters reported Anthropic’s Claude chatbot will serve as the backbone to Amazon’s Alexa update, which is expected to release in 2025.

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