Amazon and artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will bring together their respective industry-leading technology and expertise in a safer generative AI to accelerate the development of Anthropic’s future foundation models and make them widely accessible to AWS customers.
Under the arrangement, Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its future foundation models, benefiting from the price, performance, scale and security of AWS. The two companies will also collaborate in the development of future Trainium and Inferentia technology.
AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development. Anthropic plans to run the majority of its workloads on AWS, further providing Anthropic with advanced cloud services.
Anthropic makes a long-term commitment to provide AWS customers around the world with access to future generations of its foundation models via Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s fully managed service that provides secure access to the industry’s top foundation models. In addition, Anthropic will provide AWS customers with early access to unique features for model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.
Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and have a minority ownership position in the company.
“We have tremendous respect for Anthropic’s team and foundation models and believe we can help improve many customer experiences, short- and long-term, through our deeper collaboration,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
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Anthropic, an AWS customer since 2021, has grown quickly into one of the world’s leading foundation model providers and a leading advocate for the responsible deployment of generative AI. Their foundation model, Claude, excels at a wide range of tasks, from sophisticated dialogue and creative content generation to complex reasoning and detailed instruction, while maintaining a high degree of reliability and predictability.
“We are excited to use AWS’s Trainium chips to develop future foundation models,” said Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. “Since announcing our support of Amazon Bedrock in April, Claude has seen significant organic adoption from AWS customers. By significantly expanding our partnership, we can unlock new possibilities for organizations of all sizes as they deploy Anthropic’s safe, state-of-the-art AI systems together with AWS’s leading cloud technology.”
Today’s news is the latest AWS generative AI announcement as the company continues to expand its unique offering at all three layers of the generative AI stack.
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Amazon and Anthropic are each engaged across a number of organizations to promote the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) AI working groups, the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), the Partnership on AI, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Responsible AI Institute