Amazon to Invest Additional $4 Billion in Anthropic

<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text">Anthropic is expanding its partnership with Amazon Web Services &lpar;AWS&rpar;&comma; deepening their work together to develop and deploy advanced AI systems&period; This expanded partnership includes a new &dollar;4 billion investment from Amazon and establishes AWS as Anthropic&&num;8217&semi;s primary cloud and training partner&period; This will bring Amazon&&num;8217&semi;s total investment in Anthropic to &dollar;8 billion&comma; while maintaining their position as a minority investor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text">Anthropic is working closely with Annapurna Labs at AWS on the development and optimization of future generations of Trainium accelerators&comma; advancing the capabilities of specialized machine learning hardware&period; Through deep technical collaboration&comma; we’re writing low-level kernels that allow us to directly interface with the Trainium silicon&comma; and contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack to strengthen Trainium&period; Engineers work closely with Annapurna’s chip design team to extract maximum computational efficiency from the hardware&comma; which they plan to leverage to train the most advanced foundation models&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text">This close hardware-software development approach&comma; combined with the strong price-performance and massive scalability of Trainium platforms&comma; enables us to optimize every aspect of model training from the silicon up through the full stack&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-section"><strong>Claude as core infrastructure<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text">Through Amazon Bedrock&comma; Claude has become core infrastructure for tens of thousands of companies seeking reliable&comma; practical AI solutions at scale&period; <strong>Pfizer<&sol;strong> uses the latest Claude models in Amazon Bedrock to accelerate research and delivery timelines for critical medicines&comma; while saving tens of millions in operational costs&period; <strong>Intuit<&sol;strong> uses Claude in Amazon Bedrock to explain complex tax calculations for millions of users during tax season&period; <strong>Perplexity<&sol;strong>&comma; an AI-powered search engine&comma; delivers more accurate responses at twice the speed by using Claude in Amazon Bedrock&comma; and the <strong>European Parliament<&sol;strong> leverages Claude to power &OpenCurlyQuote;Archibot’&comma; making 2&period;1 million official documents instantly searchable and easier to analyze in multiple languages while reducing research time by 80&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text"><strong>Enabling secure&comma; customizable AI solutions<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text">Claude in Amazon Bedrock provides access to frontier intelligence within AWS&comma; allowing customers to keep models and data in the same cloud environment&period; Building on this unified architecture&comma; organizations can fine-tune Claude models in Amazon Bedrock&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;news&sol;fine-tune-claude-3-haiku">including Claude 3 Haiku<&sol;a>&comma; to tailor outputs to their specific requirements and boost accuracy for domain-specific tasks&period; Customer proprietary training data remains secure within AWS&comma; preserving our commitment to safety and privacy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"ReadingDetail&lowbar;reading-column&lowbar;&lowbar;FguxH post-text">By leveraging AWS’s robust security features and compliance certifications&comma; organizations can confidently deploy AI solutions that meet stringent regulatory requirements&period; Government customers and industry partners can access Claude’s capabilities through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud &lpar;US&rpar;&period; Additionally&comma; government customers can access Claude through Amazon SageMaker in highly controlled environments like the AWS Secret and Top Secret Cloud Regions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;