Anthropic is one of OpenAI’s closest competitors, and offers their service called Claude AI to users. Today, Anthropic announced that it has received an additional $4 billion in funding from Amazon. At the same time, AWS will be used by Anthropic to train their artificial intelligence models.
For your information, Amazon is ready to invest in Anthropic before, and this is an additional investment by Amazon into this artificial intelligence firm.
For Amazon itself, this investment is expected to be profitable in several ways. The first is the use of AWS cloud services to train AI models, thus opening up more firms to do the same using the services and chips provided by Amazon. In addition, Amazon is also expected to use the advantages of Anthropic’s technology in powering future Alexa models.
In addition to Amazon, Google is also among those who have invested in Anthropic before.