{"id":572812,"date":"2026-04-09T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572812\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:19:13","slug":"aws-boss-explains-why-investing-billions-in-both-anthropic-and-openai-is-an-ok-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572812\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon\u2019s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI<\/a>, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in <\/a>Anthropic, is the type of conflict of interest the cloud giant is used to handling.<\/p>\n

Garman has worked at Amazon since he was a business school intern in 2005, before the launch of AWS in 2006, he told the audience of the HumanX<\/a> conference taking place this week in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

When asked about the inherent conflict of working closely with two AI model companies that are fierce (and, arguably, sometimes petty<\/a>) competitors, he said it\u2019s not a problem. Because AWS itself often competes with its partners, it has a lot of direct experience with such competition, he explained.<\/p>\n

In AWS\u2019s earliest years, it knew it couldn\u2019t build every cloud offering itself, so the unit partnered with others. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe also knew that we would have to compete with our partners, because technology is interconnected,\u201d Garman recounted. \u201cSo, for a very long time, we\u2019ve built this muscle up of how we go to market with our partners,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut we also may even have first-party products that compete with them, and that\u2019s okay, and we\u2019ve promised them we won\u2019t give ourselves unfair competitive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, the world is used to Amazon competing with those who sell on its cloud. Even one of AWS\u2019s biggest rivals, Oracle, sells its database<\/a> and other services on AWS. But it was a radical idea back in 2006, when technology partners took pains never to compete with the partners that helped them succeed.<\/p>\n

Still, Amazon is hardly a trailblazer in discarding investor loyalty and conflict-of-interest commitments in the wild, money-grabbing world of AI. When Anthropic announced its latest $30 billion round in February, it included at least a dozen investors<\/a> who were also backing OpenAI. This included OpenAI\u2019s main cloud partner, Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Techcrunch event<\/p>\n

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For AWS, making a huge investment in OpenAI to gain its model for its customers (and as a technology development partner) was almost a matter of life and death. Both models were already available on Microsoft\u2019s cloud, AWS\u2019s biggest rival.<\/p>\n

The cloud giants are also working to keep themselves front and center by offering AI model-routing services. Those services allow their customers to automatically use different models for various tasks as a way to maximize performance and reduce costs. As Garman explained, one model might be ideal for planning, another for reasoning, and a cheaper model for easier tasks, like code completion. \u201cI think that is where the world will go,\u201d Garman said.<\/p>\n

That is also how Amazon, and Microsoft for that matter, will slip their own homegrown models into usage \u2014 that old competing-with-your-partners situation, again.<\/p>\n

All\u2019s fair in love and AI these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon\u2019s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after its long partnership including $8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,184,181,507,185,148685,1283,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-572812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-aws","13":"tag-matt-garman","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}