Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
TechCrunch·3h ago·Neutral
What Happened
Anthropic announced Monday that Amazon invested $5 billion, bringing total Amazon investment to $13 billion. Anthropic committed to spending over $100 billion on AWS across ten years, obtaining up to 5GW computing capacity for Claude training. The deal includes Amazon's custom Trainium and Graviton chips, mirroring Amazon's similar OpenAI agreement from two months prior.
Key Entities
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