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Amazon Doubles Investment in AI Startup Anthropic To $8 Billion

(Friday November 22, 2024 @11:50AM (msmash) from the gold-rush dept.)


Amazon said on Friday it will invest [1]an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic , following [2]earlier investments of $4 billion made in September and March. As part of the deal, Amazon Web Services will become Anthropic's primary training partner, with the AI firm committing to use AWS's Trainium and Inferentia chips for future model development.

Anthropic operates the Claude large language model.



[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-trainium

[2] https://slashdot.org/story/23/09/25/1319210/amazon-to-invest-as-much-as-4-billion-in-ai-startup-anthropic



Anthropic (Score:3)

by rossdee ( 243626 )

Anthropic? Isn't that the company responsible for Climate Change? (Anthropic Global Warming)

Re: (Score:2)

by backslashdot ( 95548 )

3/10 .. joke too contrived.

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