Amazon announced this Friday that it will invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by former OpenAI workers, thus raising the technology giant’s total investment in the startup to $8 billion.
Anthropic says in a statement that it names Amazon Web Services (AWS) as “its primary training partner” and that it will use the AWS Trainium machine learning (ML) chip to “train and deploy its most important base models.”
“We have been impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and commitment to the responsible development of generative AI, and we look forward to deepening our collaboration,” Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said in the statement.
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Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI company Anthropic
Claude, Anthropic’s chatbot, has achieved great popularity among generative AI users, now overshadowing other successful chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini.
“This has been a year of tremendous growth for Claude, and our collaboration with Amazon has been instrumental in bringing Claude’s capabilities to millions of end users across tens of thousands of customers on Amazon Bedrock,” said Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO. from Anthropic.
“We look forward to working with Amazon to train and power our most advanced AI models using AWS Trainium, and help unleash the full potential of their technology,” Amodei added.
Last September, Amazon and Anthropic announced a “strategic collaboration,” which included Anthropic’s appointment of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its “top cloud provider” and Amazon’s $4 billion investment in Anthropic.
With information from EFE.
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