Amazon will invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform, bringing its total investment to $8 billion under an expanded partnership between the companies.
Even with the additional investment, the Seattle tech giant will remain a minority investor in Anthropic, the San Francisco company said in a post Friday morning.
The move further positions the Amazon-Anthropic combination as a counterpart to the duo of Microsoft and OpenAI. The Redmond-based tech company has invested about $14 billion in the ChatGPT maker.
“Anthropic is now naming AWS its primary training partner, in addition to continuing to be its primary cloud provider, and will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models,” Amazon said. “Both companies will continue to work closely to keep advancing Trainium’s hardware and software capabilities.”
In addition, Amazon Web Services and Anthropic will give AWS customers early access to a new capability that allows them to fine-tune their own data on Anthropic models. Amazon described it as “a customization benefit that AWS customers will uniquely enjoy for each model for a period of time on new Claude models.”
In its post, Anthropic described its work with Amazon’s Annapurna Labs silicon development group to optimize their Tranium chips for AI model training. Anthropic also said that Claude’s inclusion in Amazon’s Bedrock service has made it “core infrastructure for tens of thousands of companies.”
Amazon announced its initial investment in Anthropic in September 2023. Google Cloud, one of Amazon’s main cloud rivals, reportedly invested $300 million in Anthropic for a 10% stake as part of a prior funding round.
The announcement comes in advance of the annual AWS re:Invent conference in early December. AI has become a key area of potential growth and competition among AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and other cloud providers.
https://ift.tt/1tjAlM4 November 22, 2024 at 02:35PM GeekWire
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