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Amazon locks in $100bn Anthropic cloud deal with $25bn investment
Amazon deepens its grip on AI infrastructure by investing up to $25bn in Anthropic alongside a decade-long $100bn AWS cloud commitment.
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Amazon deepens its grip on AI infrastructure by investing up to $25bn in Anthropic alongside a decade-long $100bn AWS cloud commitment.
Context
• Amazon will invest up to $25bn in Anthropic, alongside a $100bn long-term AWS cloud commitment. • Deal reinforces Amazon’s position at the centre of AI infrastructure and cloud computing.
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Analysis
Amazon will invest up to $25bn in Anthropic, deepening a partnership built around artificial intelligence infrastructure and compute supply. The investment includes $5bn upfront and up to $20bn in additional funding tied to commercial milestones . This adds to Amazon’s earlier $8bn stake. At the same time, Anthropic has committed to spending more than $100bn over the next ten years on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The agreement locks AWS in as its core cloud provider and secures long-term access to large-scale computing capacity. The deal also extends to Amazon’s custom AI chips, including Trainium2 and Trainium3. Anthropic expects to reach around one gigawatt of capacity by year-end and scale up to five gigawatts over time. Amazon continues to invest heavily in AI infrastructure, with around $200bn in planned capital expenditure this year, largely focused on data centres and chips. While its own models, such as Nova, have seen limited traction, AWS remains central to global AI compute supply.
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