Amazon has announced strategic investments of up to $4 billion in the Anthropic startup.
Today, we’re announcing that @Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic. The agreement is part of a broader collaboration to develop reliable and high-performing foundation models. pic.twitter.com/lPJ03oqr6C
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) September 25, 2023
The investment will give Amazon a minority stake in the startup.
«AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, providing our team with access to leading computing infrastructure in the form of AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, which will be used in addition to existing solutions for training and deploying models,» the statement said.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei. They were among those who left the company amid internal disagreements, including over collaboration with Microsoft.
In February, reports surfaced about Google’s $300 million investment in Anthropic. Later the team unveiled the Claude chatbot, which is set to challenge ChatGPT.
In May, the startup raised $450 million from Spark Capital, Google, Salesforce Ventures, Zoom Ventures and others. The funds were earmarked to develop “useful, safe and honest AI systems”. Among them is Claude, which handles a broad range of text-processing tasks.
In the same month, the startup unveiled ‘constitutions’ for the responsible creation of AI algorithms.
In September, the defense-focused AI developer Helsing closed a €209 million Series B round.