Anthropic introduced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to take a position a contemporary $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s whole funding within the firm to $13 billion. Anthropic, for its half, has agreed to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the following 10 years, acquiring as much as 5 GW of latest computing capability to coach and run Claude.
The deal echoes an settlement Amazon struck with OpenAI simply two months in the past, when it joined a $110 billion funding spherical — contributing $50 billion — that valued the ChatGPT maker at a $730 billion pre-money valuation. That deal, too, was structured partly as cloud infrastructure providers moderately than straight money.
On the coronary heart of this deal is Amazon’s customized chips: Graviton (a low-power CPU) and Trainium (an Nvidia competitor and AI accelerator chip). The Anthropic deal particularly covers Trainium2 by means of Trainium4 chips, despite the fact that Trainium4 chips will not be at the moment obtainable. The most recent chip, Trainium3, was launched in December. On high of that, Anthropic has secured the choice to purchase capability on future Amazon chips as they grow to be obtainable.
We’ll see if this information is a teaser to Anthropic asserting a brand new funding spherical. VCs have reportedly been providing the AI firm capital in a deal that will worth it at $800 billion or extra.
