Amazon Invests $4 Billion in Anthropic, Building AI Supercomputer with Hundreds of Thousands of Chips to Quintuple Processing Power

Dec 3, 2024, 10:27 PM

Amazon has announced a significant investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, committing an additional $4 billion to the company. As part of this partnership, Amazon will supply Anthropic with a substantial cluster of proprietary chips, which is expected to quintuple the startup's current processing power. Furthermore, Amazon is constructing what it claims will be the largest AI supercomputer in the world, utilizing new servers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will integrate hundreds of thousands of Anthropic's AI chips. This collaboration aims to enhance Anthropic's capabilities in developing advanced AI models, leveraging both Amazon's cloud infrastructure and its cutting-edge hardware.