Amazon’s total investment in the AI company now totals $8bn, with its AWS unit as Anthropic’s cloud provider

The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said on Friday it had raised an additional $4bn investment from its longtime backer Amazon.com, bringing the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn, underscoring big tech’s growing generative AI investments.

Amazon will maintain its position as a minority investor, the company said. Its AWS unit will also be Anthropic’s official cloud provider.