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Amazon is investing $2.75 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as part of a larger effort to “accelerate” the adoption of generative artificial intelligence technology.
The company announced the investment on Wednesday, noting that the new $2.75 billion investment is on top of the $1.25 billion it invested in Anthropic last year. The companies also said Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services as its “primary cloud provider.”
Anthropic is one of the largest companies in the generative AI space, alongside startups like OpenAI and tech giants like Google and Meta.
The Claude AI system (think of it as an Anthropic version of GPT) is already being used with Amazon Bedrock by companies like Delta, the PGA Tour, Intuit, and Pfizer.
Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and AI at AWS, said: “We have a distinguished history with Anthropic, helping organizations of all sizes around the world deploy advanced generative artificial intelligence applications across their organizations.” Our efforts, most recently the introduction of the cutting-edge Claude 3 family of models, combined with Amazon's best-in-class infrastructure like AWS Tranium and managed services like Amazon Bedrock, create even more exciting opportunities for customers. You can use generative AI to innovate quickly, safely, and responsibly.. Generative AI is poised to become the most innovative technology of our time, and we believe our strategic collaboration with Anthropic will further improve our customer experience, and we look forward to what's next. ”