September 25, 2023
Amazon and Anthropic, a research lab and company dedicated to building safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI), today announced a strategic collaboration to advance generative AI. As part of the collaboration, Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and take a minority ownership position in the company.
The two companies will work together to develop the most reliable and high-performing foundation models in the industry. Anthropic’s frontier safety research and products, together with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) expertise in running secure, reliable infrastructure, will make Anthropic’s safe and steerable AI widely accessible to AWS customers.
Anthropic’s foundation models are trained on massive datasets of text and code, and can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. These models have the potential to revolutionize many industries, from healthcare to customer service to entertainment.
Amazon and Anthropic are both committed to the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies. The two companies are actively engaged across a number of organizations to promote AI safety, including the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), the Partnership on AI (PAI), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
What does this mean for developers and businesses?
The collaboration between Amazon and Anthropic will make it easier for developers and businesses to access and use safe and powerful generative AI models. Anthropic’s models will be available through Amazon Web Services (AWS), so developers can build with them without having to worry about the infrastructure or expertise required to train and run these models themselves.
This collaboration is also a good sign for the future of generative AI. Amazon and Anthropic are two of the leading companies in this field, and their investment in each other shows that they are committed to developing and deploying this technology responsibly.
What can we expect to see in the future?
It is still early days for generative AI, but the potential is enormous. We can expect to see these models used in a wide range of applications in the years to come, including:
- New and innovative customer experiences
- More personalized and effective healthcare
- More efficient and productive business processes
- New forms of creative expression
The collaboration between Amazon and Anthropic is an important step forward in the development of safe and beneficial generative AI. By making these models more accessible to developers and businesses, Amazon and Anthropic are accelerating the pace of innovation and bringing the benefits of this technology to people around the world.
