Amazon executives are considering a new multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic PBC, following existing investments totaling $13.8 billion primarily through convertible notes.
The potential funding round could be worth billions of dollars, supporting Anthropic in its AI chip development efforts, collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and maintaining Amazon's stake below 33%.
Anthropic's AI models, including the hybrid reasoning model Claude 4 Opus, have shown significant capabilities, driving annualized revenue run rates of more than $4 billion across chatbot and API offerings.
Anthropic has partnered with AWS on Project Rainier to address growing infrastructure needs, with plans for a data center campus in Indiana equipped with AWS Trainium2 chips for improved AI processing performance.