Amazon invests billions more in OpenAI competitor Anthropic
Anthropic intends to use AWS as its primary partner for training the AI models of its Claude family. The AWD hardware Trainium will also benefit from this.
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The AI startup Anthropic is intensifying its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon is investing a further 4 billion US dollars (around 3.8 billion euros) to become Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner. This brings Amazon's total investment in the start-up to 8 billion US dollars (around 7.7 billion euros). However, the company remains a minority investor. Other investors include Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia.
The Anthropic engineers are to work closely with Annapurna Labs, a subsidiary of AWS. This is the company behind the Trainium chips. They specialize in the training of machine learning models. The aim of the partnership is to further optimize the efficiency of the hardware. Anthropic wants to benefit from this when training its foundation models around the Claude family.
Claude as core infrastructure for Amazon Bedrock
Claude has been provided via the AWS platform Amazon Bedrock for some time now. According to Anthropics, tens of thousands of companies use it, including Pfizer. The pharmaceutical company wants to use the Claude models to accelerate the research and development of drugs while saving millions in operating costs.
The AI-supported search engine Perplexity also provides answers with Claude in Amazon Bedrock. The European Parliament uses Claude to make 2.1 million official documents searchable in multiple languages with "Archibot" and reduce search time by 80 percent.
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Anthropic establishes itself as a leading AI company
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI members, including Dario Amodei, previously Vice President of Research at OpenAI. The company specializes in the development of general AI systems and language models and is committed to the responsible use of AI.
However, Anthropic is also being criticized: several rights holders are suing the company for allegedly using copyrighted material when training the chatbot Claude. Most recently, three book authors accused Anthropic of illegally using their works. The company is also battling copyright lawsuits from music publishers.
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