Talk about return on investment. Amazon’s bet on Anthropic looks like an enormous win, at least on paper.
The cloud giant disclosed on Friday that it holds $45.8 billion of convertible notes and $14.8 billion of nonvoting preferred stock in the AI startup. Taken together, the figures show that Amazon‘s Anthropic stake is now worth $60.6 billion.
Amazon has invested $8 billion in Anthropic since late 2023, indicating a seven-fold increase in value. If borne out, that would rank among the most lucrative strategic technology investments the company has ever disclosed.
The two companies have a deep commercial tie-up. Anthropic has committed to buy 1 million of Amazon’s Trainium chips, binding one of the leading AI labs closely to Amazon Web Services.
Anthropic last raised $13 billion in September at a $183 billion post-money valuation, following a $3.5 billion round in March that valued the company at $61.5 billion. The AI startup is in talks for another…
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