亚马逊追加 40 亿美元投资 Anthropic AI 初创公司

亚马逊宣布向 Anthropic 追加 40 亿美元投资，这家人工智能初创公司以其 Claude 聊天机器人和先进的人工智能模型而闻名。

E-commerce giant Amazon has announced an additional $4 billion investment in Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI startup. The latest funding round brings Amazon’s total investment in the company to $8 billion.

电子商务巨头亚马逊宣布向旧金山人工智能初创公司 Anthropic 追加 40 亿美元投资。最新一轮融资使亚马逊对该公司的总投资达到 80 亿美元。

As part of the expanded collaboration, Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models, while AWS customers will gain early access to fine-tune Anthropic models with their own data.

作为扩大合作的一部分，Anthropic 将使用 AWS Trainium 和 Inferentia 芯片来训练和部署其未来的基础模型，而 AWS 客户将能够尽早使用自己的数据微调 Anthropic 模型。

The partnership follows Amazon’s initial strategic partnership with Anthropic, which was announced last September. At the time, Amazon invested $4 billion in the startup and Anthropic designated AWS as its primary cloud provider.

此次合作是继亚马逊于去年 9 月宣布与 Anthropic 建立初步战略合作伙伴关系之后进行的。当时，亚马逊向这家初创公司投资了 40 亿美元，Anthropic 指定 AWS 作为其主要云提供商。

“The response from AWS customers who are developing generative AI applications powered by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock has been remarkable,” said Matt Garman, AWS CEO.

AWS 首席执行官 Matt Garman 表示：“在 Amazon Bedrock 中开发由 Anthropic 提供支持的生成式 AI 应用程序的 AWS 客户的反应非常出色。”

“We’re excited to expand our collaboration with Anthropic, and as Anthropic unveils new capabilities in its AI models, AWS customers will continue to gain early access to these models.”

“我们很高兴扩大与 Anthropic 的合作，随着 Anthropic 在其 AI 模型中推出新功能，AWS 客户将继续尽早访问这些模型。”

Anthropic has also announced new capabilities in its AI models, including the introduction of Claude 3.5 Haiku and the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which feature advanced agentic properties such as computer-use capability.

Anthropic 还宣布了其人工智能模型的新功能，包括引入 Claude 3.5 Haiku 和升级后的 Claude 3.5 Sonnet，其具有先进的代理属性，例如计算机使用能力。