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In a sign of Anthropic ’s progressively cozy family relationship with Amazon , Anthropic has formed a young squad to recruit AWS customers to employ its AI products .
The squad , which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several month ago , aims to “ quicken ” the adoption of Anthropic ’s AI among AWS accounts by “ building programs that [ … ] scurf across worldwide market and segments . ” That ’s fit in tojoblistingsonAnthropic ’s websiteand Book of Job boards around the web .
“ [ Y]ou will own and scale one of our most significant strategical human relationship , go a team creditworthy for multi - billion one dollar bill revenue opportunity through our AWS partnership , ” reads alisting for a Head of Amazon GTM Partnership role . “ You will work closely with senior leadership across both governance to drive joint success [ and ] shape strategy . ”
Amazon is a major backer of Anthropic , having committed $ 8 billionin capital to the startup to date . While the companionship has no governing body rights and is a minority investor , Amazon is Anthropic ’s “ primary ” training cooperator , providing in - house chipsto help Anthropic modernize its AI models .
Anthropic has also optimise its models to run on AWS infrastructure , releasing models with capability exclusive to Bedrock , AWS ’ AI development platform . And the company has launch collaboration with Amazon mate , including Accenture andPalantir , to facilitate access to its AI technical school through AWS .
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei enunciate in November that Anthropic ’s Claude family of model was being used by “ tens of M ” of Bedrock client .
Amazon , which is leveraging Anthropic technology to power component part of its revamped Alexa experience , Alexa+ , no doubt see to it Anthropic as of import to its overall AI business ’ maturation . Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recentlyclaimedthat Amazon ’s AI revenue is grow at “ treble - finger’s breadth ” year - over - year share and represents a “ multi - billion - buck yearly revenue rill pace . ”
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Anthropic , meanwhile , stands to profit from AWS ’ strain as it looks to grow its own gross . The startup isreportedlyaiming to notch $ 12 billion in revenue in 2027 , up from a projected $ 2.2 billion this year .
Amazon ’s dealing with Anthropic have attracted some regulative examination .
The FTC last year sent a letter to Amazon , as well as to Microsoft and Google , requiringthe ship’s company to excuse the shock their investments in startups such as Anthropic have on the competitive AI landscape . Google has alsoinvestedin Anthropic , pouring billions into the company over multiple funding round .
The FTCthis year published a report findingthat AI investments by Big Tech firms can create lock - in and reveal tender data that can weaken rival , but stopped short of recommending enforcement action . The CMA , for its part , concludedthat Amazon ’s partnership and fairness investiture in Anthropic ca n’t be enquire under current amalgamation rules due to the size and compass of the deal .
