Amazon to Invest $25 Billion in Anthropic, Deepening AI Infrastructure Partnership

On April 20, Amazon announced a $5 billion investment in Anthropic, with the potential to invest up to an additional $20 billion in the future tied to certain commercial milestones. Amazon had previously invested $8 billion in the company.

The two parties have deepened their partnership, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) granting Anthropic access to up to 5 gigawatts(GW) of current and next-generation Trainium chips to train and power AI models.

Anthropic has committed to purchasing over $100 billion in computing resources from AWS over the next decade, including current and future generations of Trainium AI chips, as well as tens of millions of Graviton cores. Additionally, Anthropic will use AWS Trainium chips to run its large language models.