Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion\u2014enabling Anthropic to eventually secure up to 5 gigawatts\u2019 worth of AI chips from Amazon to help train and run its popular Claude AI models.<\/p>\n
Amazon is already one of Anthropic\u2019s largest investors, having previously invested <\/a>$8 billion in the AI startup. The latest move brings Amazon\u2019s immediate investment up to $13 billion, and the companies have agreed to the possibility of Amazon committing another $20 billion in the future if the partnership achieves certain commercial milestones, according to Wall Street Journal<\/a> reporting.<\/p>\n The large cash infusion and prospect of obtaining more computing resources come at a crucial time for Anthropic, given the massive surge in\u00a0paid subscriptions<\/a> for Claude-related services early this year. That demand spike and strain on the existing cloud compute infrastructure supporting Claude have contributed to performance issues and even occasional outages for thousands of Claude users.<\/p>\n \u201cGrowth at this pace places an inevitable strain on our infrastructure; our unprecedented consumer growth, in particular, has impacted reliability and performance for free, Pro, Max, and Team users, especially during peak hours,\u201d Anthropic wrote in an announcement<\/a> about the Amazon investment.<\/p>\n The new deal with Amazon will deliver \u201cmeaningful compute in the next three months\u201d and nearly 1 gigawatt in total before the end of 2026, said Anthropic. The company did not specify the timeframe for when Anthropic might secure the full 5 gigawatts of new compute capacity from Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion\u2014enabling Anthropic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-390789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}