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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
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Anthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s total investment in the company to $13 billion.
Key facts
- The deal echoes an agreement Amazon struck with OpenAI two months ago, when it joined a $110 billion funding round — contributing $50 billion — that valued the ChatGPT maker at a $730 billion
- Anthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s total investment in the company to $13 billion
- At the heart of this deal is Amazon’s custom chips: Graviton (a low-power CPU) and Trainium (an Nvidia competitor and AI accelerator chip)
- The Anthropic deal specifically covers Trainium2 through Trainium4 chips, even though Trainium4 chips are not currently available
Summary
The deal echoes an agreement Amazon struck with OpenAI 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. At the heart of this deal is Amazon’s custom chips: Graviton (a low-power CPU) and Trainium (an Nvidia competitor and AI accelerator chip). They'll see if this news is a teaser to Anthropic announcing a new funding round.