Anthropic and Amazon Deepen Ties with $4B Funding

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Written By Rick Watson

Anthropic is a leading AI safety and research company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers. The company focuses on developing reliable and ethical AI models, with its flagship model, Claude, gaining traction as a versatile AI infrastructure solution across various industries.

Anthropic announced a new $4 billion investment from Amazon, establishing Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud and training partner. Based on this new funding, Anthropic will use AWS-developed Trainium chips to train and deploy its future foundation models. The deals between Amazon and Anthropic benefit both parties - Anthropic gets a large customer who uses its technology, which AWS resells to customers via its Amazon Bedrock solution, and gets better pricing on AWS over several years. Amazon gets access to the latest models from Anthropic.

TechFundingNews: Anthropic and Amazon deepen ties with $4B funding: What this means for AI’s future

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

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