November 22, 2024: Amazon Boosts Anthropic Investment to $8 Billion - Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic to a total of $8 billion, strengthening their AI and chip collaboration. Anthropic, known for its large language model Claude 3.5 Sonnet, will use AWS as its primary cloud and AI training provider. This expanded partnership offers AWS customers early access to fine-tuning Anthropic models via Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic will leverage AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips while collaborating on software development for future chips. This comes as OpenAI recently raised $6.6 billion for AI research expansion.