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, Anthropic has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) its "primary cloud and training partner." Before today's announcement, The Information had reported that Amazon wanted to make any additional funding contingent on a commitment from Anthropic to use the company's in-house AI chips instead of silicon from NVIDIA. It appears Amazon got its way, with both companies noting in separate press releases that Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train future foundation models.

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