Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic. The e-commerce giant will provide Anthropic with an additional $4 billion in funding on top of the $4 billion it committed last year. Although Amazon remains a minority investor,

Amazon said it will invest $8 billion in AI firm Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the company to $8 billion over just the past few months. The companies teamed up last September, with Amazon putting in $4 billion and Anthropic naming Amazon Web Services its primary cloud provider.

Anthropic is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has exploded in popularity.