Amazon Makes Additional $2.75B Investment In AI Startup Anthropic

Amazon has made an additional $2.75 billion investment in artificial intelligence (AI) startup company Anthropic.

The move increased the US-based tech firm's total investment in Anthropic to $4 billion, Amazon said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The work Amazon and Anthropic are doing together to bring the most advanced generative artificial intelligence technologies to customers worldwide is only beginning," the company said.

"Customers of all sizes and industries are using Claude on Amazon Bedrock to reimagine user experiences, reinvent their businesses, and accelerate their generative AI journeys," it added.

Amazon announced earlier this month that Anthropic's Claude 3 family of models will be available on Amazon Bedrock, enhancing the ability of customers of all sizes to rapidly test, build, and deploy generative AI applications across their organizations.

The Claude 3 family of models demonstrate advanced intelligence, near-human levels of responsiveness, improved steerability and accuracy, and new vision capabilities, according to the firm.

Amazon said industry benchmarks show that Claude 3 Opus, the most intelligent of the model family, outperformed other models available today, including OpenAI's GPT-4, in areas of reasoning, math, and coding. -