Amazon.com Inc. is pouring billions more into a rival to artificial intelligence leader OpenAI.
On Nov. 22, Anthropic PBC, an AI research company, and the Seattle internet titan said Amazon was doubling its investment in Anthropic, to $8 billion. The development follows up on a $4 billion commitment it made in September 2023. Amazon is a minority owner of Anthropic.
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by ex-employees of OpenAI, develops an AI model called Claude. On its website, the San Francisco-based company says its product is capable of advanced reasoning, vision analysis, code generation, and multilingual processing.
In a release, Amazon said the deal announced on Friday would extend an existing agreement, making Amazon Web Service (AWS) the primary cloud-computing provider for Anthropic. Furthermore, the agreement will make AWS Anthropic’s primary training partner, and the AI company will use AWS’s Trainium and Inferentia chips “to train and deploy its future foundation models.”…