Amazon has just confirmed a further investment of 2.75 billion dollars at Anthropic, the San Francisco startup known for its large language model, Claude.
Amazon, 2.75 billion investment in Anthropic's AI
This financing is in addition to the previous investment of 1.25 billion dollarsbringing the total to 4 billion dollars. It's a significant move for the e-commerce giant, marking its largest financial commitment to an external entity in three decades, as DDay recalls.
Over the past year, Anthropic has completed five rounds of financing, reaching approx 7.3 billion dollars. Despite the large sum invested, Amazon will remain a minority shareholder without a seat on Anthropic's board of directors. This information alone makes it clear how successful the startup is.
The agreement requires Anthropic to adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud provider for the most important workloads, such as security research and the development of future foundation models. The chips AWS Train from Inference they will be used to build and train the new models, which will then be made available to AWS customers around the world.
Claude positions itself as a direct competitor of ChatGPT on OpenAI, both in the enterprise and consumer markets. Amazon's investment announcement comes shortly after the launch of Claude 3whose most advanced version, Close 3 Workrecently passed GPT-4 in several benchmarks. Perhaps also due to these results, Amazon has decided to invest, with the idea of giving Microsoft a hard time with ChatGPT and Google, which develops its Gemini internally.
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