The move is part of its effort to compete with cloud rivals Microsoft and Google.
Amazon’s employees and cloud customers will gain early access to Anthropic’s tech as part of the deal.
The San Francisco-based startup also committed to rely primarily on Amazon’s cloud services, including training its future AI models on large quantities of proprietary chips it would buy from the online retailing and computing giant. The deal also shows ongoing manoeuvring by the cloud companies to secure ties with AI startups reshaping their industry.
Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services’s CEO, said the pact “will help make Anthropic’s models better, will help make our chip technology and our AI infrastructure better”. Amazon’s customers will gain features from Anthropic early, such as the ability to customize their AI. Amodei said the deal “allows us to work more closely to drive enterprise usage for Claude”, which he said represented much of the demand on Bedrock so far.