News Formal

Anthropic will use AWS AI chips after $4 billion Amazon investment

  • 📰 engadget
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 36 sec. here
  • 5 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 28%
  • Publisher: 63%

Amazon Web Services News

Amazon,Anthropic,Annapurna Labs

After double majoring in unemployment (English and Art History), Igor’s career prospects were, to say the least, limited. It was either become a teacher or a writer. Thankfully, he went with the latter.

. The e-commerce giant will provide Anthropic with an additional $4 billion in funding on top of the $4 billion it committed last year. Although Amazon remains a minority investor, Anthropic has agreed to make Amazon Web Services its “primary cloud and training partner.”

that Amazon wanted to make any additional funding contingent on a commitment from Anthropic to use the company’s in-house AI chips instead of silicon from NVIDIA. It appears Amazon got its way, with both companies noting in separate press releases that Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train future foundation models.

Additionally, Anthropic says it will collaborate with Amazon’s Annapurna Labs to develop future Trainium accelerators. “Through deep technical collaboration, we’re writing low-level kernels that allow us to directly interface with the Trainium silicon, and contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack to strengthen Trainium,” the company said.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 276. in BUSİNESS
 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Amazon escalates AI arms race with additional $4B investment in OpenAI rival AnthropicAmazon, which is Anthropic’s primary cloud partner, is fiercely competing with Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google to offer AI-powered tools for its cloud customers.
Source: nypost - 🏆 91. / 67 Read more »

Amazon Boosts Investment in AI Startup Anthropic to $8 BillionAmazon's investment in Anthropic has been boosted by a further $4 billion cash injection.
Source: Newsweek - 🏆 468. / 52 Read more »