The new investment will see AWS serve as Anthropic’s primary training provider as well as its primary cloud provider

AWS has announced another round of investment into AI startup Anthropic, doubling down on a previous $4 billion investment recently approved by a UK regulator.

The firm will invest a further $4 billion into Anthropic, AWS said, and will build on its partnership with the AI developer through expanded collaboration in the training process.

Where the last investment set AWS as Anthropic’s primary cloud provider, this announcement will see AWS become Anthropic’s primary training partner as well. Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy future foundation models.

This move will enhance the performance, security, and privacy that Amazon Bedrock provides for customers running Anthropic’s Claude models, AWS said.

As a bonus, both firms will provide AWS customers early access to fine-tuning capabilities with their own data on Anthropic models. This level of customization will be available specifically to AWS customers for a period of time on new Claude models.

“The response from AWS customers who are developing generative AI applications powered by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock has been remarkable,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said.

“By continuing to deploy Anthropic models in Amazon Bedrock and collaborating with Anthropic on the development of our custom Trainium chips, we’ll keep pushing the boundaries of what customers can achieve with generative AI technologies,” he said.

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