Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

# Amazon Bets Big on Anthropic's AI Amazon just gave $5 billion to Anthropic, a company making AI chatbots to compete with ChatGPT, and in return Anthropic promised to spend $100 billion using Amazon's cloud computing services over time. Think of it like Amazon investing in a restaurant chain and requiring them to buy all their ingredients from Amazon's supplier. This is Amazon's way of betting on which AI company will win while making sure that winner uses its technology infrastructure.