On April 2, LatePost reported thatAmazonCloudTech (the name of AWS in China) organized a generative AI communication session in Beijing.Highlighting the month-old release of Claude 3 seriesLarge Model.
The report cites an Amazon cloud tech source as saying that AWS is not deploying Claude 3 on servers in China, and that like Microsoft Azure, Chinese companies can request to call and compute Claude 3 models deployed elsewhere through AWS' globally available Bedrock service. The tech source also said thatAfter the release of the Claude 3 series of models, they received a large number of requests for cooperation from Chinese companies..
Amazon previously announced an additional $2.75 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which follows a $1.25 billion investment last year.Bringing Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $4 billionand became a core investor in the latter, a "major cloud provider".
As part of the investment agreement, Amazon received a minority stake in Anthropic and was able to participate in shaping the company's directionAmazon has also incorporated Anthropic's models into its Amazon Bedrock service. Additionally, Amazon is incorporating Anthropic's model into the Amazon Bedrock service, a fully managed service from Amazon Cloud Technologies (AWS) that helps developers integrate generative AI capabilities into their applications and services.
In early March, Anthropic released its groundbreaking Claude 3 series of models, theThis family of Large Language Models (LLMs) sets new performance benchmarks on a wide range of cognitive tasksThe Claude 3 family consists of three sub-models, Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus, which offer varying degrees of intelligence, speed, and cost options to meet a variety of AI application needs. According to Anthropic, Claude 3 Opus scored above the GPT-4 on more than a dozen commonly used model capability assessment datasets.