announced this Friday (22) that , a long-time supporter of the startup, invested another 4 billion dollars in the company, doubling its investment in the company known for its degenerative chatbot Claude.
Amazon will maintain its position as a minority investor and will be Anthropic’s primary training partner for AI models, the startup said.
Amazon, which is Anthropic’s primary cloud computing partner, is competing with and to offer AI-based tools to cloud computing service customers.
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backed by Microsoft, last month raised $6.6 billion from investors, which could value the company at $157 billion and cement its position as one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
Anthropic plans to train and deploy its base models on Amazon’s Trainium and Inferentia chips. The intensive process of training AI models requires powerful processors, which makes securing AI chips a top priority for startups.
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currently dominates the AI processor market and counts Amazon among its long list of customers.
Still, Amazon has been working to develop its own chips through its Annapurna Labs division, which Anthropic said it is “working closely with” to help develop processors.
Anthropic, co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, said last year that it had also secured a $500 million investment from Google parent Alphabet. The startup also uses Google Cloud services as part of its operations.
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