Amazon and Anthropic have announced a collaborative effort aimed at delivering cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) technologies to a global audience. This partnership, solidified through a strategic agreement, sees Anthropic selecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider for essential operations, including safety research and the development of future foundation models.
Anthropic’s utilization of AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for model building, training, and deployment signifies a pivotal step towards advancing generative AI capabilities. Additionally, Anthropic has committed to granting AWS customers worldwide access to forthcoming iterations of its foundation models through Amazon Bedrock. This fully managed service by AWS offers a secure platform with an extensive selection of high-performing foundation models (FMs) alongside features like retrieval augmented generation, guardrails, model evaluation, and AI-powered agents, facilitating the creation of highly-capable and cost-effective generative AI applications with minimal latency.
Earlier this month, access to Anthropic’s powerful AI models on Amazon Bedrock was announced. Notably, the Claude 3 family of models, boasting enhanced intelligence, near-human responsiveness, improved accuracy, and new vision capabilities, represents a significant advancement. Industry benchmarks have positioned Claude 3 Opus, the most intelligent variant of the family, as setting a new standard in reasoning, mathematics, and coding prowess, surpassing existing models such as OpenAI‘s GPT-4.
Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and AI at AWS, underscored the collaboration’s significance, highlighting Anthropic’s visionary contributions to generative AI and their recent advancements with the Claude 3 model family. The integration of Anthropic’s innovations with Amazon’s infrastructure and managed services is poised to revolutionize generative AI, offering customers opportunities for rapid, secure, and responsible innovation in this transformative technology landscape.
Numerous global organizations across diverse sectors have already embraced Amazon Bedrock to leverage Anthropic’s Claude AI for their generative AI applications. Among these organizations are ADP, Amdocs, Bridgewater Associates, and Delta Air Lines, among others, signaling broad industry adoption.
In a concerted effort to accelerate the adoption of advanced generative AI technologies, AWS, Anthropic, and Accenture have joined forces. This collaboration aims to assist organizations, particularly those in highly-regulated industries like healthcare and banking, in responsibly adopting and scaling generative AI solutions. By leveraging Anthropic’s best-in-class models, AWS’s comprehensive capabilities on Amazon Bedrock, and Accenture’s industry expertise, organizations can tailor generative AI applications to their specific needs, ensuring scalable and customized solutions across various use cases.