Amazon has agreed to invest an additional $5 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude model, bringing the tech giant’s total investment in the Seattle-area firm to $13 billion, the company announced Monday.
In return, Anthropic has committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next decade, securing up to 5 gigawatts of new computing capacity to train and run Claude. The deal is structured partly around cloud infrastructure services rather than straight cash, mirroring an agreement Amazon struck with OpenAI just two months ago when it contributed $50 billion to a $110 billion funding round that valued ChatGPT’s maker at $730 billion.
