Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said today it has raised an additional $4 billion investment from longtime backer Amazon.com.
This brings the e-commerce giant's total investment to $8 billion and underscores Big Tech's growing genAI investments.
Amazon will maintain its position as a minority investor, the company said. Its AWS unit will also be Anthropic's official cloud provider.
Anthropic also said it is working with AWS' Annapurna Labs on the development of future generations of Amazon's Trainium chips and plans to train its foundational models on the hardware.
Britain's competition regulator had said in September Amazon's partnership with Anthropic will not be referred for a deeper probe as it did not fall under its jurisdiction.
Anthropic, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, said last year it had also secured a $500m investment from Alphabet, which promised to invest another $1.5 billion over time.
