Amazon is to invest around $4 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic to increase its AI capabilities and gain a minority stake in the company.

The partnership will see Anthropic expand and develop its large language model (LLM) Claude, with its latest version ‘Claude 2’ set to allow organisations to carry out a range of tasks, including content generation, coding and processing information.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider, with the AI provider planning to run the majority of its workloads on the platform.

The company said the move will mean that its AI technology is made widely accessible to AWS customers.

It added that developers and engineers at Amazon will be able to build Anthropic models with Claude 2 via Amazon Bedrock. This will enable them to incorporate generative AI capabilities into their work, enhance existing applications, and create net-new customer experiences across Amazon’s businesses, it said.

Anthropic also says it will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy its future foundation models.

“We have tremendous respect for Anthropic’s team and foundation models, and believe we can help improve many customer experiences, short and long-term, through our deeper collaboration,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive. “Customers are quite excited about Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s new managed service that enables companies to use various foundation models to build generative AI applications on top of, as well as AWS Trainium, AWS’s AI training chip, and our collaboration with Anthropic should help customers get even more value from these two capabilities.”

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