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December 17, 2025
Amazon to invest another $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic
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TL;DR
- Amazon increases its investment in Anthropic by $4 billion, reaching a total of $8 billion.
- AWS is designated as Anthropic's "primary training partner".
- Anthropic will use Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips for its future AI models.
- Claude AI is expected to power the next version of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant.
- The revamped Alexa, delayed to 2025, reportedly performed better with Claude than Amazon's in-house model in beta testing.
- Amazon aims to improve Alexa's conversational abilities to compete with models like ChatGPT.
- Some beta users reported slow and unhelpful responses from the new Alexa.
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