Amazon has announced that it is making its way into healthcare generative artificial intelligence by investing $4 billion into Anthropic, staking a minority claim on the company. Amazon will incorporate Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, into Amazon Bedrock which is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new generative AI service.
The press release said that Anthropic will “train and deploy its future foundation models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, taking advantage of AWS’s high-performance, low-cost machine learning accelerators.”
“We have tremendous respect for Anthropic’s team and foundation models, and believe we can help improve many customer experiences, short and long-term, through our deeper collaboration,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
“Customers are quite excited about Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s new managed service that enables companies to use various foundation models to build generative AI applications on top of, as well as AWS Trainium, AWS’s AI training chip, and our collaboration with Anthropic should help customers get even more value from these two capabilities.”
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic had this to say:
“Since announcing our support of Amazon Bedrock in April, Claude has seen significant organic adoption from AWS customers. By significantly expanding our partnership, we can unlock new possibilities for organizations of all sizes, as they deploy Anthropic’s safe, state-of-the-art AI systems together with AWS’s leading cloud technology.”
According to Amazon’s press release, “Claude is much less likely to produce harmful outputs, easier to converse with, and more steerable compared to other foundation models, so developers can get their desired output with less effort.”
This collaboration aligns with AWS’s efforts in the generative AI space, providing compute resources, foundation models and generative AI applications. This investment also builds upon Amazon’s healthcare platform. In 2022, Amazon purchased One Medical, a network of primary care clinics, for $3.9 billion.
