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Amazon commits up to $20B to Anthropic, betting its cloud business on a rival AI startup

Amazon commits up to $20B to Anthropic, betting its cloud business on a rival AI startup

Amazon announced an initial $5 billion investment in Anthropic (an AI safety company founded by former OpenAI researchers), with the option to invest up to $20 billion more over time. In return, Anthropic will use Amazon's AWS cloud infrastructure to train and run its Claude AI models.

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