Anthropic has committed to offering AWS customers access to future generations of its foundation models via Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from AWS. The $4 billion investment will be broken down into an initial $1.25 billion, with either company having the option to inject the additional $2.75 billion. The partnership will also allow Amazon customers early access to features from Anthropic, such as the ability to customize their AI.
Key takeaways:
- Amazon plans to invest up to $4 billion in AI firm Anthropic, marking the latest move by a tech giant to carve out a piece of the AI space.
- The partnership will see Anthropic use Amazon Web Services (AWS) chips to build, train, and deploy its future foundation models.
- AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, with Anthropic planning to run a majority of its workloads on AWS.
- Anthropic has committed to offering AWS customers access to future generations of its foundation models via Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from AWS.