Amazon and Anthropic are augmenting their collaboration as Anthropic names AWS its primary training partner, in addition to already being its primary cloud provider. This expanded partnership includes a new $4 billion investment from Amazon, doubling down Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion. 

The AI safety and research company will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models. This next phase of the collaboration will further enhance the already premium performance, security, and privacy Amazon Bedrock provides for customers running Claude models.

Additionally, Anthropic and AWS have collaborated to give AWS customers early access to the ability to fine-tune with their own data on Anthropic models.

“The response from AWS customers who are developing generative AI applications powered by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock has been remarkable,” said Matt Garman, AWS CEO. “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. We’ve been impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and commitment to responsible development of generative AI and look forward to deepening our collaboration.”

“This has been a year of breakout growth for Claude, and our collaboration with Amazon has been instrumental in bringing Claude’s capabilities to millions of end users across tens of thousands of customers on Amazon Bedrock,” said Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. “We’re looking forward to working with Amazon to train and power our most advanced AI models using AWS Trainium and helping to unlock the full potential of their technology.”