(Reuters) -Amazon.com is in talks for its second multi-billion greenback funding in synthetic intelligence startup Anthropic, the Data reported on Thursday, citing an individual acquainted with the matter.
The cloud companies big introduced an funding of $4 billion within the OpenAI rival in September final 12 months, saying its prospects would acquire early entry to Anthropic’s expertise.
Amazon (NASDAQ:) has requested Anthropic, which makes use of Amazon’s cloud companies to coach its AI mannequin, to make use of a lot of servers powered by chips developed by the cloud computing main, the report mentioned.
It added that the AI startup prefers to make use of Amazon servers powered by Nvidia-designed AI chips.
Amazon and Anthropic declined to remark.
Anthropic, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, final 12 months mentioned it had secured a $500 million funding from Google-parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:), which promised to take a position one other $1.5 billion over time.
