Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services

Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic. The e-commerce giant will provide Anthropic with an additional $4 billion in funding on top of the $4 billion it committed last year. Although Amazon remains a minority investor,

Anthropic is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has exploded in popularity.

Anthropic, one of the world’s top providers of advanced AI models, has announced a massive $4 billion investment from Amazon, bringing the tech and shopping giant’s total investment in the AI firm to $8 billion.

Anthropic intends to use AWS as its primary partner for training the AI models of its Claude family. The AWD hardware Trainium will also benefit from this.

AI business Anthropic, which was created by former OpenAI research leaders, has received an extra $4 billion investment from Amazon.

Amazon, which is Anthropic's primary cloud partner, is fiercely competing with Microsoft and Alphabet's Google to offer AI-powered tools for its cloud customers.

Amazon announced today that it’s pumping another $4 billion into Claude AI maker Anthropic, bringing its total funding amount to $8 billion. This latest round follows $1.25 billion last September and another $2.

Amazon said on Friday that it will provide $4 billion more into the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Anthropic with its Amazon Web Service becoming its primary cloud and training partner.

Amazon.com pumped in an additional $4 billion into artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, as the e-commerce giant goes up against Big Tech rivals in a race to capitalize on generative AI technology.