Amazon to put up to USD25b in Anthropic as Claude maker pledges USD100b on AWS

The news: Amazon has expanded its "strategic collaboration" with AI lab Anthropic, which will see Jeff Bezos' company invest USD5 billion ($7 billion) into Anthropic "today", plus up to USD20 billion in the future.

In return, Anthropic has committed to spending more than USD100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next decade.

The numbers: Anthropic, the maker of AI assistant Claude, will secure up to 5 gigawatts of current and future generations of Amazon's Trainium chips to train and power its advanced AI models.

Amazon has invested USD8 billion in Anthropic to date.

Anthropic's USD100 billion commitment will include current and future generations of Amazon's custom silicon chip Trainium, as well as "tens of millions" of Amazon's CPU chip Graviton, Amazon said in a statement.