Amazon’s employees and cloud customers will gain early access to technology from Anthropic as part of the deal, which they can infuse into their businesses. The San Francisco-based start-up also committed to rely primarily on Amazon’s cloud services, including training its future AI models on large quantities of proprietary chips it would buy from the online retailing and computing giant.
Since 2019, Microsoft has put billions of dollars into its partnership with ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, giving its customers special access to the startup’s prose-writing, image-generating technology. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, said his company “has obtained the money in a way that allows it to prioritise safety” and “allows us to continue to scale up our models”.
Amazon’s customers will gain features from Anthropic early, such as the ability to customise their AI. Selipsky said: “Both companies are committing that, for many years to come, future versions of Claude will be available on Amazon Bedrock, and that’s important.”