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Amazon announced on April 20 an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude AI model.
The new funding brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion, with the potential for up to $20 billion more if the startup meets its performance targets.
Alongside the investment, Anthropic said it will spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on computing infrastructure for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which it described as the backbone for expanding AI capabilities amid rising global demand.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the deeper collaboration with Amazon is intended to ensure sufficient infrastructure capacity to keep pace with AI development, while continuing research and bringing Claude versions to customers at scale.
Anthropic is emerging as a major competitor in the AI race. Earlier this month, the company said its annual revenue had tripled from the previous quarter to over $30 billion, marking the first time it surpassed OpenAI in growth rate.
Anthropic’s rapid expansion has also coincided with tensions involving the U.S. government. The company previously refused to allow its technology to be used for purposes such as mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, leading to disputes with the Pentagon and the Trump administration.
Washington also urged a halt to using Anthropic’s technology in certain activities. Still, Amodei’s recent outreach to U.S. officials at the White House suggests both sides are seeking new avenues of cooperation.
Those efforts are focused on setting standards and risk-control mechanisms as AI expands.
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