Amazon Completes $4 Billion Investment in Anthropic

<p>Anthropic announced it is using Amazon Web Services &lpar;AWS&rpar; as its primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads&comma; including safety research and future foundation model development&period; Anthropic will also use <span class&equals;"Enhancement-inline"><span class&equals;"Enhancement-item"><a class&equals;"Link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;aboutamazon&period;com&sol;news&sol;aws&sol;what-you-need-to-know-about-the-aws-ai-chips-powering-amazons-partnership-with-anthropic" data-cms-ai&equals;"0">AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;span> to build&comma; train&comma; and deploy its future models and has made a long-term commitment to provide AWS customers around the world with access to future generations of its foundation models on <span class&equals;"Enhancement-inline"><span class&equals;"Enhancement-item"><a class&equals;"Link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;aboutamazon&period;com&sol;news&sol;aws&sol;aws-amazon-bedrock-general-availability-generative-ai-innovations" data-cms-ai&equals;"0">Amazon Bedrock<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;span>&period; This is AWS’s fully managed service that provides secure&comma; easy access to high-performing&comma; fully managed foundation models &lpar;FMs&rpar;&comma; along with the most compelling set of features &lpar;including best-in-class retrieval augmented generation&comma; guardrails&comma; model evaluation&comma; and AI-powered agents&rpar; that help customers build highly-capable&comma; cost-effective&comma; low latency generative AI applications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Amazon is also making an additional &dollar;2&period;75 billion investment in Anthropic&period; Last September&comma; the company made an initial investment of &dollar;1&period;25 billion&comma; bringing the total investment in Anthropic to &dollar;4 billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have a notable history with Anthropic&comma; together helping organizations of all sizes around the world to deploy advanced generative artificial intelligence applications across their organizations&comma;” said Dr&period; Swami Sivasubramanian&comma; vice president of Data and AI at AWS&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Anthropic’s visionary work with generative AI&comma; most recently the introduction of its state-of-the art Claude 3 family of models&comma; combined with Amazon’s best-in-class infrastructure like AWS Tranium and managed services like Amazon Bedrock<i> <&sol;i>further unlocks exciting opportunities for customers to quickly&comma; securely&comma; and responsibly innovate with generative AI<i>&period;<&sol;i> <span class&equals;"Enhancement-inline"><span class&equals;"Enhancement-item"><a class&equals;"Link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;aboutamazon&period;com&sol;news&sol;aws&sol;generative-ai-is-the-future" data-cms-ai&equals;"0">Generative AI is poised to be the most transformational technology of our time<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;span>&comma; and we believe our strategic collaboration with Anthropic will further improve our customers’ experiences&comma; and look forward to what’s next&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Global organizations of all sizes&comma; across virtually every industry&comma; are already using Amazon Bedrock to build their generative AI applications with Anthropic’s Claude AI&period; They include ADP&comma; Amdocs&comma; Bridgewater Associates&comma; Broadridge&comma; CelcomDigi&comma; Clariant&comma; Cloudera&comma; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute&comma; Degas Ltd&period;&comma; Delta Air Lines&comma; Druva&comma; Enverus&comma; Genesys&comma; Genomics England&comma; GoDaddy&comma; HappyFox&comma; Intuit&comma; KT&comma; LivTech&comma; Lonely Planet&comma; LexisNexis Legal &amp&semi; Professional&comma; M1 Finance&comma; Netsmart&comma; Nexxiot&comma; Parsyl&comma; Perplexity AI&comma; Pfizer&comma; the PGA TOUR&comma; Proto Hologram&comma; Ricoh USA&comma; Rocket Companies&comma; and Siemens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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