On Monday Amazon informed the notification of its recent biggest investment, 5 billion USD, to Anthropic, an American AI safety and research company, as it ramps up its collaboration with the startup behind Claude artificial intelligence.
Amazon added that it could invest $20 billion more in Anthropic, provided the startup meets certain performance goals.
San Francisco-based Anthropic said that it has committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology to empower AI in the coming decade.
“We need to build the infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand,” Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei stated in a press release.
“Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research while delivering Claude to our customers,” he added therein.
Anthropic mentioned in early April that it had tripled its annualised revenues quarter-on-quarter to over $30 billion in respect of outpacing OpenAI for the first time.
Amodei visited US officials on last week at the White House, where they struck a different tone from the dispute that erupted in February, when the AI startup infuriated Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth by insisting its technology should not be used for mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons systems.
The rhetoric marks a departure from months earlier, when President Donald Trump instructed the US government to immediately cease using Anthropic’s technology after the company refused to allow the Pentagon unconditional use of its Claude AI models.
Anthropic has challenged the Trump administration in court, as well as Hegseth’s move to add the company to a list of firms that pose a supply chain risk.
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced its newest AI model Mythos, withholding it from public release due to its potential cybersecurity risks.
