Amazon has recently completed an investment of $4 billion in the AI giant and Anthropic. The companies are collaborating to produce the most advanced generative AI technologies to their customers.
Anthropic and AWS
A big part of the collaboration includes the deployment of Amazon Web Services (AWS) by Anthropic. AWS will be the main cloud provider for critical work such as safety research and future foundation model development. To be more specific, Anthropic will mainly use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips. These chips are the main requirement for building, training and deploying future AI models. Moreover, AWS customers globally will gain access to future generations of Amazon Bedrock foundation models.
The benefits don’t stop here. Customers will also gain access to fully managed services from AWS that provide secure access to the industry’s best and completely managed foundation models (FMs). Additional features will include class retrieval augmented generation, guardrail model evaluation and AI powered agents.These features will help customers create advanced and cost-effective generative AI apps.
A tight collaboration
In the beginning of March, Amazon provided access to one of the most powerful Anthropic AI models. It’s called the Claude 3 family of Gen AI models. Through these models, customers achieved a high level of human responsiveness and advanced intelligence. The Claude 3 Opus is the most intelligent model and it is outperforming other models, including GPT4 from Open AI in areas like mathematics, writing code and reasoning. Companies worldwide are utilizing Amazon Bedrock to build their generative AI applications using Claude AI. These companies include Siemens, Ricoh, Pfizer, and GoDaddy.
Amazon and regulated industries
Integrating generative AI technologies in highly regulated industries is a huge step towards adoption. Highly regulated industries encompass banking, insurance, healthcare, and other public sector services. To achieve this step, AWS is collaborating with Anthropic and Accenture to provide state of the art and custom made generative AI modelsa.
Accenture provides the capabilities of customizing and fine-tuning Anthropic’s Claude models. Through this approach creating AI apps will be easy in areas such as analysis, forecasting and knowledge base management. Additionally the teams from Anthropic and Accenture will assist clients in fields like prompt engineering. There will be more than 1,400 engineers who are specialists in utilizing AI models on AWS.
Amazon started to invest in Anthropic last year in September. Initially the company invested $1.25 billion. Now the company made an additional investment of $2.74 billion making the total investment to $4 billion dollars. The impact on the stock market will be positive, bringing more investment and liquidity to the AI sector.
The huge investment from Amazon indicates that Anthropic has one of the most powerful generative AI models available in the world. It means that GPT4 from Open AI is only scratching the surface. People don’t really comprehend the power of AI and its impact on the world is underestimated.