New Delhi, April 21 -- Amazon announced on Monday that it will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic. As part of the deal, the AI firm has also committed to spending more than $100 billion over the next decade on Amazon's cloud technologies.

The deal signals one of the largest long-term collaborations in the rapidly intensifying AI race and deepens the two companies' relationship as Anthropic rushes to secure capacity to bolster its models. The announcement mentioned that Anthropic has secured up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying its Claude AI models.

Seattle-based Amazon will invest $5 billion in Anthropic now, and up to an additional $20 billion in the future, tied to certain commercial milestones. This investment ...