Amazon significantly increased its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion—allowing Anthropic to eventually secure 5 gigawatts worth of AI chips from Amazon to train and run its popular Claude AI models.
Amazon is already one of Anthropic’s biggest investors previously invested $8 billion in AI startup. The latest move brings Amazon’s immediate investment to $13 billion, and the companies have agreed that Amazon may pay another $20 billion in the future if the partnership reaches certain commercial milestones. The Wall Street Journal to report.
The large cash flow and the prospect of acquiring more computing resources come at a crucial time for Anthropic. paid subscriptions for services to Claude earlier this year. The surge in demand and strain on the existing cloud computing infrastructure supporting Claude has caused performance issues and even random outages for thousands of Claude users.
“Growth at this rate puts an inevitable strain on our infrastructure; our unprecedented consumption growth has impacted reliability and performance for free, Pro, Max, and Team users, especially during peak hours,” Anthropic wrote. announcement About the Amazon investment.
According to Anthropic, the new contract with Amazon will provide “meaningful computing in the next three months” by the end of 2026 and a total of about 1 gigawatt. The company did not specify when Anthropic might secure the full 5 gigawatts of new computing capacity from Amazon.
