Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services

In the case of Amazon and Anthropic, the companies maintain that teams are writing ‘low-level kernels,’ so that parts of the system can interface directly with the Trainium processor as hardware, in the words of spokespersons, the ‘Trainium silicon.’

Amazon invests another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, doubling down on AI development while strengthening AWS's position in the competitive AI chip market.

News: Amazon doubles its investment in Anthropic with $4B, fueling the tech buzz in AI as it strengthens its cloud AI offerings and competes with rivals Microsoft and Google.

It was only back in March that Amazon finished shoveling $4 billion into Anthropic, maker of the Claude family of generative models. Now comes word of another $4 billion, bringing the e-commerce and cloud giant's total investment to – check the math – $8 billion.

On Friday, Amazon announced it has invested $4 billion more into genAI startup Anthropic. This new funding round brings its total investment in the company to over $8 billion yet maintains its position as a minority investor.

Amazon will invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform, bringing its total investment to $8 billion under an expanded partnership between the companies.

Anthropic named Amazon Web Services as its primary training partner, in addition to continuing to be its primary cloud provider.

Amazon, which is Anthropic’s primary cloud partner, is fiercely competing with Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google to offer AI-powered tools for its cloud customers.

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