Amazon to put up to USD25b in Anthropic as Claude maker pledges USD100b on AWS
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The news: Amazon has expanded its “strategic collaboration” with AI lab Anthropic, which will see Jeff Bezos’ company invest USD5 billion ($7 billion) into Anthropic “today”, plus up to USD20 billion in the future.
In return, Anthropic has committed to spending more than USD100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next decade.
The numbers: Anthropic, the maker of AI assistant Claude, will secure up to 5 gigawatts of current and future generations of Amazon’s Trainium chips to train and power its advanced AI models.
Amazon has invested USD8 billion in Anthropic to date.
Anthropic’s USD100 billion commitment will include current and future generations of Amazon’s custom silicon chip Trainium, as well as “tens of millions” of Amazon’s CPU chip Graviton, Amazon said in a statement.
The context: Amazon and Anthropic have worked together since 2023, with over 100,000 customers running Claude models on AWS.
The two companies are also working together on ‘Project Rainier’, one of the largest AI compute clusters in the world.
The expansion of their strategic collaboration will include a “meaningful expansion” of international inference in Asia and Europe, they said, “to better serve Claude’s growing international customer base”.
What they said: “Our custom AI silicon offers high performance at significantly lower cost for customers, which is why it’s in such hot demand,” said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
“Anthropic’s commitment to run its large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we’ve made together on custom silicon, as we continue delivering the technology and infrastructure our customers need to build with generative AI.”
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei commented: “Our users tell us Claude is increasingly essential to how they work, and we need to build the infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand.”
“Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research while delivering Claude to our customers, including the more than 100,000 building on AWS.”
The source: Amazon media release
