The AI scene is shifting so quickly. Earlier this year, up-and-coming Anthropic partnered with Google, taking a $300 million investment for a reported 10% stake and making the Big Tech firm its “preferred cloud provider, giving [Anthropic] the compute power necessary to build reliable and trustworthy AI systems.”
But that was, what, nine months ago? Ancient news. Now, Anthropic has a new BFF in Amazon’s cloud unit, which has been willing to invest a lot more—up to $4 billion, for an as-yet-undisclosed minority stake—and which now becomes Anthropic’s “primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development.”
