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The company found a key ally in Amazon, securing a significant $8 billion investment split into two key phases. The first tranche mandates Anthropic to primarily utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud provider, while the second phase explicitly stipulates the adoption of Amazon’s proprietary chips for future model training. This pivotal shift means the company will transition from using Nvidia’s A100 and H100 chips to utilizing Amazon's Trinium 2 chips, fostering a new dependency in the AI ecosystem.