Amazon's $4 Billion Investment Boosts AI Startup Anthropic in Race Against OpenAI

Amazon plans to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence firm founded by former OpenAI research executives. The investment highlights Amazon's commitment to AI and its competition with Microsoft and Google. Anthropic will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to advance generative AI, with AWS serving as its primary cloud provider. AWS customers will have early access to unique features for model customization, and Anthropic will use custom AWS-designed semiconductors to train its AI applications.