In the case of Amazon and Anthropic, the companies maintain that teams are writing ‘low-level kernels,’ so that parts of the system can interface directly with the Trainium processor as hardware, in the words of spokespersons, the ‘Trainium silicon.’

Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services

Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic. The e-commerce giant will provide Anthropic with an additional $4 billion in funding on top of the $4 billion it committed last year. Although Amazon remains a minority investor,

Amazon invests another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, doubling down on AI development while strengthening AWS's position in the competitive AI chip market.

Amazon has increased its investment in AI startup Anthropic with an additional $4bn, taking the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn. With the latest funding, Amazon will remain a minority investor in the AI company.

Anthropic’s latest funding round comes two months after OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in the largest startup investment on record. It also secured a $4 billion line of credit from a group of banks. OpenAI, which is now worth $157 billion, will invest the funds in AI research and compute infrastructure.

Amazon announced today that it’s pumping another $4 billion into Claude AI maker Anthropic, bringing its total funding amount to $8 billion. This latest round follows $1.25 billion last September and another $2.

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