Rumors indicate Amazon is reportedly considering an additional investment in AI firm Anthropic, which would bring its total stake to over $8 billion, according to Reuters. This would cement Amazon as the company’s largest investor and signal that it remains more interested in profiting from the explosive growth of the AI industry than directly competing within it. Since the launch of several highly capable large language AI models in 2022, Amazon has been positioning itself as the prime resource to power the AI gold rush. Its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business is one of its most profitable components, earning close to $30 billion in Q1 2025 alone, providing data center hardware and software solutions all over the world. That’s exactly what AI developers need – compute power, storage, and the ability to scale (not to mention lots of power) – and Amazon is in a prime position to supply it. A larger stake in Anthropic would make it clear that Amazon wants to support and monetize AI’s growth, not necessarily lead it from the front. Meta is a clear example of what can happen to even deep-pocketed tech giants if they don’t quite manage to keep up in this rapidly evolving space. It’s trying to find a commercial avenue for its mix of customer-facing chatbots and open-source development tools, and not really nailing any of it.

Full report : Amazon’s $8 billion Anthropic investment rumors suggest it is more interested in ramping up its AI infrastructure than built LLMs and AI chatbots to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini.