Amazon's Anthropic stake is leading to a huge windfall

Jul 31, 2026 04:53 AM - 1 hour ago 1

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Amazon's liking successful Anthropic is proving to beryllium a monolithic boon to the world's largest online retailer.

In its latest quarterly net report, Amazon reported non-operating pre-tax different income of $53.4 billion, "primarily from our finance successful Anthropic."

According to erstwhile financial filings, Amazon has invested $13 cardinal successful Anthropic pinch the imaginable for up to $20 cardinal more.

In June, Anthropic announced that it confidentially revenge for an first nationalist offering, taking the first measurement toward a highly anticipated IPO. In precocious May, Anthropic said that it had completed a Series H backing information that weighted the institution astatine $965 billion.

Amazon isn't the only Big Tech sanction sharing successful Anthropic's success.

On Wednesday, Microsoft reported its finance successful Anthropic had netted a $3.2 cardinal gain. Microsoft antecedently invested $5 cardinal successful Anthropic.

Anthropic has seen its valuation skyrocket arsenic the fame of its Claude family of models pushes the wide generative AI race.

Brent Griffiths is simply a elder newsman astatine Business Insider who covers AI and tech.Previously, he worked astatine the Washington Post arsenic a interrogator connected Power Up and the Finance 202. He started his profession astatine Politico wherever he worked connected the web accumulation squad and covered breaking news. His passion for covering authorities has only grown since he trim his teeth covering the statesmanlike run arsenic a student journalist. He's besides contributed to the Almanac of American Politics.