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has agreed to invest another $4 billion in AI startup 听补 rival with its AI assistant Claude.

It was just last fall when Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a deal that gave the Seattle-based e-commerce and cloud titan a minority stake in the startup. The immediate investment was $1.25 billion, with the remaining $2.75 billion in funding coming earlier this year.

That deal included Anthropic naming its primary cloud provider, as well as using AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models.

This new investment means Amazon will have invested $8 billion into Anthropic, retaining its minority stake in the startup, per an Anthropic .

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Big money

Of course, Amazon is far from the only Big Tech firm to make big bets on AI startups.

made a massive $10 billion investment in back in January 2023. Since then, companies such as , 听1 and have placed several bets.

Google also is an investor in Anthropic.

The big money deal with Amazon is actually only the second-biggest AI deal this week.

鈥檚 generative AI startup raised $5 billion in a funding round valuing it at $50 billion, reported . The new round includes investment from the , , and .

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