Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, is known for its Claude family of chatbots. Amazon has leveraged its relationship with Anthropic to enhance its AI services, offering Claude models to clients on the AWS marketplace. However, Anthropic's funding deals have faced regulatory scrutiny over concerns of big tech dominating the AI sector. The UK has cleared prior investments from Amazon and Google into Anthropic, but the US Justice Department is seeking to unwind Google's deal with the company.
Key takeaways:
- Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, following a $4 billion investment earlier this year, maintaining its minority stake in the company.
- The latest investment establishes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner, with the startup planning to use Amazon's AI chips for its advanced models.
- Anthropic, a rival of OpenAI, was founded by former OpenAI employees and its Claude family of chatbots is considered among the most capable of generating text from scratch.
- Anthropic's funding deals, like those of other AI companies, have come under regulatory scrutiny, with concerns that big tech is using large investments and cloud computing partnerships to dominate the emerging AI sector.