Anthropic and Amazon Web Services Expand Partnership

Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are deepening their collaboration with a newly announced $4 billion investment from Amazon, bringing the company’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion. This expanded partnership positions AWS as Anthropic’s primary cloud and training partner, underscoring a shared commitment to advancing AI technology.

Driving Innovation with AWS Trainium

As part of the collaboration, Anthropic is partnering closely with AWS’s Annapurna Labs to enhance future generations of Trainium accelerators, specialized hardware designed to optimize machine learning. Anthropic’s engineers are working on low-level kernels that interface directly with Trainium silicon, contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack to maximize the hardware’s computational efficiency.

This joint effort combines a silicon-to-software development approach with Trainium’s scalability and cost efficiency, enabling Anthropic to refine every layer of AI model training and deployment.

Claude as Core AI Infrastructure

Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, has become integral infrastructure for tens of thousands of companies through Amazon Bedrock. From pharmaceutical innovation at Pfizer to tax assistance for millions of Intuit users, Claude delivers practical, reliable AI solutions at scale.

Organizations such as the European Parliament rely on Claude to streamline access to over two million documents, cutting research time by 80%. Similarly, AI-powered search engine Perplexity has doubled response speeds and improved accuracy using Claude via Bedrock.

Secure, Customizable AI Solutions

The partnership emphasizes security and customization. Organizations can fine-tune Claude models in Amazon Bedrock while keeping proprietary data secure within AWS’s unified cloud environment. Government agencies and industries with stringent compliance needs can leverage Claude’s capabilities through AWS GovCloud (US) and other secure AWS regions.

Building the Future of AI

Anthropic and AWS are creating a robust technological foundation to drive next-generation AI research and applications. By combining Anthropic’s advanced AI expertise with AWS’s scalable infrastructure, the collaboration aims to deliver secure, enterprise-ready AI solutions accessible to organizations of all sizes.

Learn more about using Claude in Amazon Bedrock by visiting aws.amazon.com/bedrock/claude/.

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