Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that it will invest $5 billion in an artificial intelligence company anthropic and committed to allocating an additional $20 billion for future investments. Amazon had previously invested $8 billion in Anthropic.
Anthropic and Amazon are deeply intertwined, as Anthropic’s Claude Platform is available on AWS and is currently committed to securing up to 5 gigawatts from Amazon’s Trainium Chips, increasing its rivalry with Amazon. Nvidia. Anthropic is expected to spend more than $100 billion on AWS over the next decade.
Anthropic is expected to purchase future versions of Amazon’s AI chips, including “tens of millions” of Graviton CPU chips.
Anthropic already uses AWS Trainium and Graviton
Amazon shared that more than 100,000 customers are running Anthropic Claude models on AWS. The two companies are collaborating on Project Rainier, a massive AI computing cluster with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips to advance AI development.
Andy JassyAmazon CEO announced that Amazon chips offer users higher performance at lower cost.
“Anthropic’s commitment to running large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we’ve made together on custom silicon as we continue to deliver the technology and infrastructure our customers need to build with generative AI.”
Dario AmodeiAnthropic’s CEO and co-founder said they need to keep up with demand for Claude and that the partnership with Amazon will allow them to scale their AI services.
Amazon claims that more than 100,000 organizations are running Claude models on Amazon Bedrock.
Last week, 2nd Quarter HoldQ(New York Stock Exchange: QTWOFintech, which provides banking software, announced that it will build its digital banking platform on Claude and Amazon Bedrock.
Amazon shares jumped in after-hours trading following the news.
