The global digital juggernaut Amazon has revealed that it will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company that created the generative AI assistant Claude. Anthropic will train its models on top of Amazon silicon as part of this strategic alliance, and Anthropic will make its models accessible through Amazon Bedrock.
Amazon Will Invest Up to $4 Billion In AI Startup Anthropic
One of the biggest names in technology, Amazon, has announced a strategic agreement with AI company Anthropic that calls for an investment of up to $4 billion in return for a minority ownership in the business.
Anthropic will now employ Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its main cloud services provider, according to a press release released by Amazon. Additionally, Anthropic will "build, train, and deploy its future foundation models, benefiting from the price, performance, scale, and security of AWS," using silicon made by Amazon, such as its Trainium and Inferentia chips.
Anthropic has established itself as a competitor for Openai ever since it introduced Claude, an AI assistant with features that compete with Chatgpt, one of the most well-liked AI chatbots on the market, earlier this year. It just unveiled Claude Pro, a paid subscription service geared toward frequent Claude customers.
To expand its product offering and assist companies using Claude-based solutions, the company capitalized on the market's interest in AI in May by raising $450 million in a series C funding round, which was led by Spark Capital and included participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and others.
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Former Openai staffers who launched Anthropic said that businesses will be able to use Claude by leveraging Amazon Bedrock, a cloud service that gives users access to AI models. Claude will be used by Amazon AWS customers to "incorporate generative AI capabilities into their work, enhance existing applications, and create net-new customer experiences across Amazon's businesses."
By using Bedrock, Amazon will make it easier to deploy these models, leaving customers to focus on modifying Claude's capabilities to suit their unique requirements.
Anthropic's co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, said:
Since making our support for Amazon Bedrock public in April, AWS users have largely organically adopted Claude. We can open up new opportunities for businesses of all sizes as they employ Anthropic's secure, cutting-edge AI systems in conjunction with AWS's industry-leading cloud computing by considerably expanding our cooperation.
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