Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, an AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI executives. With a total investment of $8 billion from Amazon, Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for their AI models. The partnership allows AWS customers early access to fine-tuning with their data on Anthropic’s Claude chatbot. Anthropic recently launched a Computer Use capability, allowing AI agents to complete complex tasks like humans. Google also invested $2 billion in Anthropic. The innovative tools and technologies developed by Anthropic are gaining popularity in the competitive generative AI market.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazon-to-invest-another-4-billion-in-anthropic-openais-biggest-rival.html