Amazon increase stake in Anthropic

Amazon is doubling down on its partnership with Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, with a fresh $4 billion investment, bringing its total funding to $8 billion. This deal strengthens ties between the two companies, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) becoming Anthropic's primary cloud and AI training partner.

Anthropic will now use AWS's Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its AI models. This partnership gives AWS customers early access to Anthropic's fine-tuning capabilities for Claude, allowing them to tailor the AI model using their data.

Anthropic recently unveiled a product called Computer Use, which enables its AI to complete multi-step tasks on computers, such as navigating websites or executing commands. Early testers include Asana, Canva, and Notion.

We're eager to see the impact of Amazon's biggest external investment to date.