Anthropic secures $5 billion from Amazon, raising Amazon's total stake to $13 billion, and commits to $100 billion in AWS spending over the next decade. The deal includes 5GW of computing capacity and access to Amazon's custom Trainium AI chips (generations 2-4) for training Claude. This mirrors Amazon's recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI and signals major capital consolidation around AI infrastructure partnerships.
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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon secures exclusive infrastructure lock-in across competing AI leaders: $5B more in Anthropic ($13B total), $100B AWS spending pledge, and Trainium chip access, while simultaneously committing $50B to OpenAI—consolidating cloud and compute dominance.
Monday, April 20, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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