Anthropic
September 28, 2024
Anthropic Unicorn News - September 28, 2024
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has approved Amazon's $4 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic, marking a significant step for the company amid global antitrust scrutiny. This clearance allows Anthropic to utilize Amazon's resources, enhancing its position in the AI sector.
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Amazon is significantly expanding its role in the AI race through a major partnership with Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. The collaboration will focus on developing safer and more reliable AI systems and services. The key element of the partnership involves Amazon Web Services (AWS) becoming Anthropic’s primary cloud provider, which will provide Anthropic with computing power, particularly through AWS's custom AI chips, Trainium and Inferentia. This will allow Anthropic to train and deploy its AI models more efficiently while keeping costs lower than competing systems. This partnership aligns with Amazon’s broader AI strategy, where it aims to enhance its own services by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities across its ecosystem, from cloud offerings to e-commerce, customer service, and more. The investment could also help Anthropic continue its mission of creating safer AI systems, particularly focusing on “constitutional AI,” a method Anthropic uses to train AI systems to follow ethical guidelines without relying heavily on human intervention.
