Amazon and Anthropic are deepening their collaboration. The US online retailer is also increasing its investment in the developer of AI systems by $2.75 billion. This brings its investments to $4 billion, as Amazon announced.
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Amazon agreed to cooperate with Anthropic in September 2023 and had already announced at the time that it wanted to raise up to $4 billion for it. The agreement includes Amazon Web Services (AWS) becoming the primary cloud provider for Anthropic.
Anthropic is developing, among other things, the ChatGPT competitor Claude. Amazon praises the latest version of the Claude 3 model family for its “near-human responsiveness” and improved accuracy. In tests, Claude 3 is said to have performed better than GPT-4 from OpenAI.
Anthropic auf Bedrock
Also in September last year, Amazon and Anthropic had already agreed that Claude would receive extended support from the AI development platform Amazon Bedrock. Bedrock will enable companies in particularly heavily regulated industries such as finance, healthcare and the public sector to use Anthropic's AI for their purposes and adapt it accordingly. To this end, Amazon and Anthropic recently entered into a cooperation with the management consultancy Accenture.
Anthropic has a long-term commitment to providing AWS customers worldwide with access to future versions of its Foundation Models on Amazon Bedrock, according to Amazon. The AI company also plans to use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to develop, train and deploy its future models.
The cooperation between Amazon and Anthropic is similar to that between Microsoft and OpenAI. However, unlike Microsoft, Amazon is not an exclusive partner for OpenAI; Google also invested in Anthropic, worth $2 billion in 2023.
(anw)