Amazon Boosts Anthropic Investment in Major AI Infrastructure Deal

4 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Apr 20

Amazon will invest an additional $5 billion in AI startup Anthropic, with plans to increase this figure to as much as $25 billion.
Anthropic has committed to spend over $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies and chips over the next decade.
This expanded partnership strengthens Amazon’s position in the AI infrastructure race and supports Anthropic’s rapid growth and global expansion of its Claude AI models.

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