Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in AI Firm Anthropic
- Investment in ‘Claude’ builder follows OpenAI fundraising
- Deal deepens ties between Anthropic, Amazon’s cloud unit
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Amazon.com Inc. is investing an additional $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, boosting its stake in one of OpenAI’s chief rivals.
The new infusion, announced by the companies on Friday, follows a $4 billion investment in Anthropic completed earlier this year. That deal included provisions that Anthropic use Amazon Web Services data centers for some of its computing needs, as well as AWS-designed AI chips. Anthropic also has close ties with Alphabet Inc.’s Google.