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Anthropic continues to grow rapidly, having received over $7.3 billion in funding over the past year alone
AI company Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced an expansion of their partnership with a new $4 billion investment from Amazon, bringing its total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion. AWS is now Anthropic’s primary cloud and training partner, supporting the development of advanced AI systems.
Anthropic, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei in 2021, is partnering up with AWS to improve the latter’s AI training hardware Trainium. The collaboration, according to the partners, will ensure faster, more cost-effective development of AI models by optimising both the hardware and software.
Another key focus of this partnership is the further development of Anthropic’s AI model, Claude. Amazon currently offers a managed service via AWS called Amazon Bedrock that offers customers a choice of high-performing foundation models – including Anthropic’s Claude – via a single API. Similar offerings from Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, and Stability AI are also included as part of Bedrock.
The investment is Amazon’s second in Anthropic this year. Back in March, the company injected $2.75 billion into Anthropic, in a bid to compete with AI rivals such as Google and Microsoft through its AI chatbot Claude.
“Generative AI is poised to be the most transformational technology of our time, and we believe our strategic collaboration with Anthropic will further improve our customers’ experiences, and look forward to what’s next,” said Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Data and AI at AWS in Amazon’s press release in March.
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