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This will bring Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic – which
began last year - to $8 billion. Anthropic said the
Seattle-based tech giant will maintain its position as a
minority investor in the startup, which was founded by former
leaders of the Microsoft-linked OpenAI.
Under the deal, Amazon said the San Francisco-based Anthropic
will now name Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web
Services, as its “primary training partner.” It will also use
two AWS chips to train and deploy its future foundational
models, the advanced systems that underpin general-purpose AI
services like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbot.
“We’ve been impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and
commitment to responsible development of generative AI, and look
forward to deepening our collaboration,” Matt Garman, the AWS
CEO, said in a statement included in Amazon’s announcement.
The relationship between Big Tech companies and AI startups has
received scrutiny from regulators in the U.S. and abroad.
However, Amazon got some good news in September when Britain’s
competition watchdog said Anthropic's revenue and its combined
market share with Amazon in Britain were not big enough to
require an in-depth investigation under the country’s merger
rules.
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