In the case of Amazon and Anthropic, the companies maintain that teams are writing ‘low-level kernels,’ so that parts of the system can interface directly with the Trainium processor as hardware, in the words of spokespersons, the ‘Trainium silicon.’

Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services

Amazon invests another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, doubling down on AI development while strengthening AWS's position in the competitive AI chip market.

Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic. The e-commerce giant will provide Anthropic with an additional $4 billion in funding on top of the $4 billion it committed last year. Although Amazon remains a minority investor,

Amazon has increased its investment in AI startup Anthropic with an additional $4bn, taking the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn. With the latest funding, Amazon will remain a minority investor in the AI company.

Anthropic’s latest funding round comes two months after OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in the largest startup investment on record. It also secured a $4 billion line of credit from a group of banks. OpenAI, which is now worth $157 billion, will invest the funds in AI research and compute infrastructure.

Anthropic is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has exploded in popularity.

Amazon announced today that it’s pumping another $4 billion into Claude AI maker Anthropic, bringing its total funding amount to $8 billion. This latest round follows $1.25 billion last September and another $2.

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