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Amazon Invests Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic for AI Infrastructure Expansion
Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in AI startup Anthropic, building on prior commitments, as part of a deal focused on AI infrastructure. Anthropic will spend over $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next decade, including custom AI chips. The agreement aims to address capacity strains from growing demand for Anthropic's Claude AI models.
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Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, adding to the $8 billion previously invested in the AI startup. This investment includes $5 billion immediately, with up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones. The initial investment is at Anthropic's latest valuation of $380 billion.
Anthropic has committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years. This includes current and future generations of Trainium, Amazon's custom AI chips. Anthropic has secured up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying its Claude AI models.
Anthropic plans to bring nearly 1 gigawatt of Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity online by the end of the year. The company cited enterprise and developer demand for Claude, along with a sharp rise in consumer usage, as causing strain on its infrastructure, impacting reliability and performance. The new agreement is expected to expand available capacity quickly.
“Our users tell us Claude is increasingly essential to how they work, and we need to build the infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand.”
The collaboration will support ongoing AI research and delivery of Claude to customers, including over 100,000 building on AWS. Anthropic named AWS its primary cloud provider in 2023 and primary training partner in 2024.
This investment follows Amazon's February announcement of expecting $200 billion in capital expenditures this year, mostly on AI infrastructure. Both companies are positioning for potential IPOs as soon as this year. OpenAI executives have criticized Anthropic for not acquiring enough compute capacity.
