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Amazon proclaimd today that it’s pumping another $4 billion into Claude AI producer Anthropic, conveying its total funding amount to $8 billion. This procrastinateedst round complys $1.25 billion last September and another $2.75 billion in March.
Aextfinished with the money, Amazon wrote in its blog post that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be named Anthropic’s “primary training partner” and that the OpenAI rival would include Trainium and Inferentia chips for future models.
The spendment and startanter partnership align with previous alerting by Reuters that Claude will power Amazon’s novel Alexa voice helpant. The betterd Alexa — the free of which has been procrastinateed — alertedly carry outed better with Claude than it did when using Amazon’s in-hoinclude model. The free of the revamped Alexa feature is now sprocrastinateedd for 2025.
Amazon is at danger of droping further behind in the AI arms race appraised to competitors appreciate Microgentle and OpenAI. In the novel version of Alexa, Amazon promised a more conversational tone, aappreciate to OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode — but some beta includers alerted enumerateless, stilted, and unencouraging responses. It also apparently has trouble turning on the airys.
