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Amazon invests another $4 billion in Anthropic

Amazon's total reaches $8 billion and AWS becomes Anthropic's primary training partner

Key facts

Date
22 Nov 2024
Era
The model wars
Interest
Funding
Threads
Compute, Labs & people
Who
Amazon, Anthropic
Amount
$4B, for $8B in total
Chips
Trainium, with AWS's Annapurna Labs

Amazon invested a further $4 billion in Anthropic, taking its total to $8 billion while remaining a minority investor. Anthropic named AWS (Amazon Web Services) its primary cloud and training partner and said it would work with AWS's Annapurna Labs on Trainium, its AI training chips.

Sources

  1. Anthropic, Powering the next generation of AI development with AWS, 2024-11-22