Another day, another AI partnership announcement. This time, Amazon has made a $1.25 Billion dollar strategic investment in Anthropic, that could increase to $4 Billion in the next few years. Amazon is obviously looking to compete with Google’s Bard and Microsoft-backed OpenAI, and this deal gets them a place at the AI table. As part of the deal Anthropic will use AWS’s platform and specially designed AI chips, in a rebuke to Nvidia which most of the rest of the industry uses for AI.
What I love about this deal is Amazon’s $1.25 Billion investment will probably be recouped by Anthropic’s use of their AWS platform and AI chip, so in the long run I’m guessing this deal gets Amazon a nice piece of equity for little actual investment when all is said and done – and I didn’t even need ChatGPT to give me answer!
Amazon and Anthropic announce strategic collaboration to advance generative AI