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AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict

AWS defends its $58B split bet on OpenAI and Anthropic as competitive hedging to prevent any single AI vendor from gaining cloud dominance leverage.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline

AWS CEO Matt Garman defended Amazon's $50B investment in OpenAI alongside its $8B commitment to Anthropic by framing it as consistent with AWS's long-established practice of competing with cloud partners. He argued that technology's interconnected nature requires AWS to maintain fairness guarantees rather than leverage unilateral advantage. This dual-investment strategy reflects AWS's historical operating model rather than a novel conflict-of-interest problem.

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