Amazon.com is in talks for its second multi-billion dollar investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. The cloud services giant announced an investment of $4 billion in the OpenAI rival in September last year, saying its customers would gain early access to Anthropic’s technology. Anthropic uses Amazon’s cloud services to train its AI model.
Amazon has now asked the startup to also use a large number of servers powered by chips developed by the cloud computing major. It added that the AI startup prefers to use Amazon servers powered by Nvidia-designed AI chips.
Anthropic, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, last year said it had secured a $500 million investment from Google-parent Alphabet, which promised to invest another $1.5 billion over time.
Both Amazon and Anthropic declined to comment.
The potential new Amazon investment highlights the complex dynamics between cloud providers and AI developers, as companies jostle for position in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
However, many have noted that Anthropic may face technical hurdles in adopting Amazon's chip technology, as the associated software is less mature than Nvidia's widely used CUDA platform.
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