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. 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. In return, Anthropic will invest over $100 billion in AWS technologies and chips over the next decade, using AWS Trainium chips to run its large language models.