Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models.
Anthropic also says it’s working with Annapurna Labs, AWS’ chipmaking division, to develop future generations of Trainium accelerators, AWS’ custom-built chips for training AI models.
“Our engineers work closely with Annapurna’s chip design team to extract maximum computational efficiency from the hardware, which we plan to leverage to train our most advanced foundation models,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post. “Together with AWS, we’re laying the technological foundation — from silicon to software — that will power the next generation of AI research and development.”
The new infusion from Amazon brings the company’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion, but maintains Amazon’s position as a minority investor, Anthropic says. To date, Anthropic has raised $13.7 billion in venture capital, according to Crunchbase data.