Anthropic Secures $5 Billion from Amazon in Deal Tied to $100 Billion AWS Commitment

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:48:00 +0200

Anthropic has announced a major expansion of its partnership with Amazon, securing an additional $5 billion investment that brings Amazon’s total backing of the AI company to $13 billion. In exchange, Anthropic has committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the next decade. This agreement includes access to up to 5 gigawatts of computing capacity, which will be used to train and operate Anthropic’s Claude AI models at scale.

A key element of the deal is Amazon’s custom silicon strategy. Anthropic will rely heavily on AWS’s proprietary chips, including the Graviton CPU family and the Trainium series of AI accelerators. The agreement specifically covers Trainium2 through Trainium4 chips, even though some of these—such as Trainium4—have not yet been released. Anthropic also gains the option to use future generations of Amazon chips as they become available, signaling a long-term technological alignment between the two companies.

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