Amazon has a lot of confidence in Anthropic: the company that makes generative AI systems like Claude can count on $ 4 billion. It wants something in return: Anthropic trains its models exclusively on Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud.
It also works with Annapurna Labs, AWS’s chip maker. It hopes to further develop its Trainium chips for training AI models. Anthropic: “Our engineers are working closely with Annapurna’s chip design team to get maximum computational efficiency from the hardware, which we plan to use to train our most advanced base models. Together with AWS, we are laying the technology foundation – from silicon to software – that will power the next generation of AI research and development.”
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Anthropic will therefore work with Trainium and also use the Inferentia chip to improve the performance of the model. The chip is made by Amazon. Anthropic has sometimes spoken out about the chips, namely that it prefers to use those from Nvidia. But a $4 billion investment may have changed the team’s mind. The company desperately needs those investments: it would spend $2.7 billion in 2024 alone on improving and training its AI products.
Amazon says it is impressed with Anthropic and especially the speed at which it creates generative AI. Reason for the company to invest another 4 billion in this company, in which it previously also invested 4 billion dollars. In total, Anthropic has now raised $13.7 billion in investments. Amazon customers would also benefit from the investments: Amazon says AWS customers will get early access to new Claude models.
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