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Anthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner


Anthropic, OpenAI's close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud

“Our engineers work closely with Annapurna’s chip design team to extract maximum computational efficiency from the hardware, which we plan to leverage to train our most advanced foundation models,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post. The FTC earlier this year sent a letter to Amazon, as well as Microsoft and Google, requiring the companies to explain the impacts their investments in startups such as Anthropic have on the competitive landscape of generative AI. Anthropic continues to maintain pace with the other frontier AI labs, including OpenAI, releasing new capabilities like Computer Use, which lets its current best model perform tasks on a PC autonomously.

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