Amazon invests $5 billion in Anthropic, which commits to spending $100 billion on AWS cloud services.

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Amazon has invested an additional $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a strategic partnership. In return, Anthropic has committed to spending $100 billion on AWS cloud infrastructure over time. The deal represents a significant deepening of the relationship between the two companies in the AI sector.

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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return ↗

Amazon has invested an additional $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a strategic partnership. In return, Anthropic has committed to spending $100 billion on AWS cloud infrastructure over time. The deal represents a significant deepening of the relationship between the two companies in the AI sector.

Anthropic has agreed to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next 10 years, obtaining up to 5 GW of new computing capacity to train and run Claude.

— TechCrunch AI

Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon's total investment in the company to $13 billion.

— TechCrunch AI

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