Amazon announced an additional $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total to $8 billion while remaining a minority investor. AWS became not just Anthropic's primary cloud provider but its primary training partner, with Anthropic working alongside AWS's Annapurna Labs to optimize Trainium accelerators — down to writing low-level kernels and contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack — in what both framed as an integrated stack from silicon to software. Claude's use through Amazon Bedrock had also spread, with Pfizer, Intuit, Perplexity, and the European Parliament named among customers.
22November 2024