Amazon’s latest commitment includes an immediate $5 billion investment, with up to $20 billion more tied to performance milestones. The deal values Anthropic at $380 billion and further aligns the company’s model development with AWS as its primary cloud and training platform.
“Anthropic’s commitment to run its large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we’ve made together on custom silicon, as we continue delivering the technology and infrastructure our customers need to build with generative AI,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.
Anthropic said demand for its Claude models—across enterprise, developer, and consumer use—has put pressure on its infrastructure, affecting reliability and performance. The expanded AWS agreement is aimed at rapidly increasing available compute to support that growth.
“Our users tell us Claude is increasingly essential to how they work, and we need to build the infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand,” CEO Dario Amodei said. “Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research while delivering Claude to our customers, including the more than 100,000 building on AWS.”
The move comes amid an escalating race among cloud providers to secure AI capacity and partnerships. Amazon previously said it expects to spend about $200 billion on capital expenditures this year, largely tied to AI infrastructure.
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, has positioned itself as a leading developer of large language models, with annualized revenue exceeding $30 billion. While AWS is its primary cloud provider, the company has also struck compute deals with Microsoft, Google, and Broadcom, reflecting broader competition among hyperscalers to supply the infrastructure behind next-generation AI systems.
The agreement follows Amazon’s separate plan announced two months ago to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, highlighting intensifying competition between Anthropic and its chief rival as both companies scale ahead of potential public listings.
This analysis is based on reporting from CNBC.
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