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Amazon to Invest $4 Billion in Anthropic to Become Its Primary Partner

According to Bloomberg News, Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, becoming a key partner in the field of generating artificial intelligence and demonstrating its trust in the popular startup company.As part of the deal, Anthropic will transfer most of its software to Amazon Web Services data centers and use the cloud computing company's local chips to train models to support chatbots and other applications.

In addition to gaining Amazon's computing power, Anthropic will also receive funding to help pay the huge costs of training and running large-scale artificial intelligence models. The two companies said in a statement on Monday that Amazon will hold a minority stake in Anthropic.

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