Amazon Deepens AI Partnership With Additional $4 Billion Anthropic Investment
Amazon invests another $4 billion in Anthropic, making AWS the primary training partner for future foundation models using custom Trainium chips. The expanded deal also brings Anthropic's newest Claude 3.5 models to Amazon Bedrock.
Amazon invests an additional $4 billion in Anthropic to deepen a strategic collaboration that already sees AWS serving as the AI startup's primary cloud provider. Under this expanded agreement, Anthropic names AWS as its primary training partner and plans to use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build future foundation models. The two companies also work closely together to advance the hardware and software capabilities of these custom chips.
This enhanced partnership brings immediate benefits to AWS customers through the Amazon Bedrock platform, which now hosts Anthropic's newest Claude 3.5 Haiku and an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet models. The upgraded Sonnet model features a new computer use capability in public beta, while AWS customers receive early exclusive access to fine-tune Anthropic models with their own proprietary data for a limited time on new releases.
Leaders from both companies highlight the rapid adoption of Claude models and express enthusiasm for pushing the boundaries of generative AI technologies. Anthropic credits the collaboration with bringing its AI capabilities to millions of end users across tens of thousands of organizations, while AWS praises Anthropic's pace of innovation and commitment to responsible AI development.