Amazon Invests Additional $5 Billion in Anthropic in Exchange for $100 Billion AWS Commitment
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Summary
Anthropic has secured an additional $5 billion investment from Amazon, bringing Amazon's total investment in the AI company to $13 billion. In return, Anthropic has committed to spending over $100 billion on Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the next decade, which will provide up to 5 GW of computing capacity for training and running its Claude AI model. This deal follows a similar pattern to Amazon's recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, where cloud infrastructure spending was also a key component of the agreement.
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· 4 pulledAnthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon's total investment in the company to $13 billion.
Anthropic, for its part, has agreed to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next 10 years, obtaining up to 5 GW of new computing capacity to train and run Claude.
The deal echoes an agreement Amazon struck with OpenAI just two months ago, when it joined a $110 billion funding round — contributing $50 billion — that valued the ChatGPT maker at a $730 billion pre-money valuation.
That deal, too, was structured partly as cloud infrastructure ser
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