Amazon on Monday said it pumped another $5 billion into Anthropic as it ramps up its collaboration with the startup behind Claude artificial intelligence.
Amazon and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said reflects his company's progress in making chips, and that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said will allow his firm to focus on artificial intelligence research.
Anthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon's total investment in the company to $13 billion. Anthropic, for its part, has agreed to spend over $100 billion across the next ten years on AWS, obtaining up to 5GW of new computing capacity to train and run Claude.
Anthropic also committed to spending $100 billion on Amazon technologies that can help build and deploy A.I. systems.
Amazon is investing another $5 billion in the maker of Claude.
An Amazon spokesperson said Monday (April 20) that the company looks forward to responding in court to a motion filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta as part of an antitrust lawsuit launched in 2022.
Amazon said on Monday that Anthropic will spend more than $100 billion over the next 10 years on its cloud technologies.
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) will report its first quarter earnings on April 29, with Bank of America analysts expecting results to be driven by continued strength in both its retail and cloud computing businesses, alongside growing contributions from artificial intelligence-related demand. According to the analysts, Amazon is expected to report revenue of approximately $178.4 billion and operating income of $21.4 billion for the quarter, both modestly above Wall Street consensus estimates of $177.1 billion and $20.7 billion, respectively.
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) stock is heading into its April 29 Q1 earnings report with fresh momentum from two major Wall Street endorsements.
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After declining approximately 8% in the first quarter (Q1), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) joined numerous other stocks in an April rally that took the e-commerce and technology equity roughly 18% higher from $209.77 at the beginning of the month to $248.56 at press time.
Amazon's custom chip computing capacity is nearly sold out. Nvidia is still experiencing accelerating revenue growth.