AI Startup Anthropic Raises Additional $4 Billion from Amazon, Totaling $8 Billion in Investments
The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has announced that it has secured an additional $4 billion in funding from Amazon, bringing the e-commerce giant's total investments to $8 billion. Amazon will remain a minority investor, and its AWS division will become Anthropic's official cloud provider.
Anthropic has stated that it will collaborate with Annapurna Labs, an AWS subsidiary, to develop the next generations of Amazon's Trainium chips and train its models on this hardware. In September, the UK competition authority determined that the partnership between Amazon and Anthropic did not fall under its jurisdiction and did not require a thorough investigation.
