Amazon Expands Anthropic Partnership With US$5 Billion Investment

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Bernama-dpa) -- Amazon is expanding its partnership with OpenAI rival Anthropic with another multibillion-dollar investment, the company said on Monday.

Amazon said it would initially invest US$5 billion in the developer of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, with further investments of up to US$20 billion possible in the future, German Press Agency (dpa) reported.

At the same time, Anthropic will secure up to 5 gigawatts of capacity from current and future generations of Amazon's Trainium chips to train and power its advanced AI models, Amazon said.