Anthropic is continuing its scramble to accumulate more computing power, and Amazon is only too happy to oblige.
As part of an expanded pact, the e-commerce and cloud giant is poised to invest an additional $5 billion in the Claude developer now and up to $20 billion more in the future.
Anthropic, for its part, aims to spend more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services tech over the next decade. That totals 5 gigawatts of computing capacity, some of which is expected to come online this year. The outlays are said to include multiple generations of the Trainium chips and Gravitron CPUs.
AWS has been Anthropic’s primary cloud provider and an investor in the AI startup turned private juggernaut since 2023. Before this news, Amazon held an $8 billion stake in Anthropic. CNBC reports that the initial investment comes at the $380 billion valuation from its Series G round that closed in February; per Business Insider, its valuation may have effectively more than doubled since then.
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