The American giant had announced it, it seems that it has kept its promise. At the end of September 2023, Anthropic affirmed that the American giant planned an immediate investment of 1.25 billion dollars, supplemented by another of 2.75 billion dollars, released by the two parties in the future.
This is now done, bringing Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $4 billion as previously indicated. The start-up definitely knows how to attract the favor of cloud giants. As proof, last October, Google announced its intention to invest up to 2 billion dollars in the start-up. With such sums, it ensures that it can continue its development in a sector that requires a lot of computing power, and therefore financial resources.
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The start-up opts for AWS as its main cloud provider
Beyond this financing, Amazon makes a certain number of its services available to the start-up. This starts with using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, including security research and the development of future foundation models.
Likewise, Anthropic plans to use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its future models and has committed, in return, to providing AWS customers with access to its models, notably through Amazon Bedrock.
The Claude 3 family of models available on the Bedrock service
At the beginning of March, Anthropic unveiled a family of models called Claude 3 comprising three versions with impressive performance, to say the least. Tests carried out show, for example, that Claude 3 Opus, the most powerful model in the family, exceeds OpenAI's GPT-4 and equals Gemini 1.0 Ultra in the areas of reasoning, mathematics and coding.
Today, these generative AI models are now available on Amazon Bedrock as well as on the Google Cloud Vertex AI “model garden” library in private preview. To date, the Seattle firm indicates that a number of companies, of all sizes and in various sectors of activity, are already using Amazon Bedrock to create their generative AI applications with Claude AI from Anthropic. Among them, ADP, Amdocs, Bridgewater Associates, Broadridge, Cloudera, Delta Air Lines, Lonely Planet, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, Perplexity AI, PfizerRocket Companies and Siemensto recite nobody else but them.
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