(Reuters) -Amazon is in talks for its second multi-billion greenback funding in synthetic intelligence startup Anthropic, the Info reported on Thursday, citing an individual conversant in the matter.
The cloud providers large introduced an funding of $4 billion within the OpenAI rival in September final yr, saying its clients would achieve early entry to Anthropic’s know-how.
Amazon (NASDAQ:) has requested Anthropic, which makes use of Amazon’s cloud providers to coach its AI mannequin, to make use of a lot of servers powered by chips developed by the cloud computing main, the report stated.
It added that the AI startup prefers to make use of Amazon servers powered by Nvidia-designed AI chips.
Amazon didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark, whereas Anthropic declined remark.
Anthropic, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, final yr stated it had secured a $500 million funding from Google-parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:), which promised to speculate one other $1.5 billion over time.
