Anthropic's Claude models power Amazon's Alexa+
Anthropic announced that Claude models are the AI backbone of Amazon's newly launched Alexa+, accessed via Amazon Bedrock. The collaboration involved close coordination between Amazon and Anthropic teams over the past year, with Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger leading the integration effort. Alexa+ will begin rolling out in the U.S. within weeks, extending Claude's reach to Amazon's massive consumer device footprint. Anthropic highlights that Alexa+ benefits from Claude's safety capabilities including jailbreaking resistance.
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Anthropic launches Claude publicly with two model tiers after closed alpha
Anthropic announced the public launch of Claude on March 14, 2023, following a closed alpha with partners including Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo. The release introduced two model variants — Claude (high-performance) and Claude Instant (lighter and faster) — accessible via chat interface and API. Early partners reported Claude produced fewer harmful outputs and was more steerable than competing models, with deployments spanning education, legal tech, productivity, and search.
Anthropic and AWS expand partnership with $4B investment and Trainium hardware collaboration
Anthropic announced an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services, including a new $4 billion investment that brings Amazon's total stake to $8 billion, while establishing AWS as Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner. The collaboration includes deep hardware-software co-development on AWS Trainium accelerators, with Anthropic engineers writing low-level kernels and contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack to optimize model training from the silicon up. Claude on Amazon Bedrock is described as core infrastructure for tens of thousands of enterprises, with named deployments at Pfizer, Intuit, Perplexity, and the European Parliament. The deal also extends Claude's availability to AWS GovCloud and classified cloud regions for government customers.
Anthropic introduces computer use capability, upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic announced three major developments: an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with significant coding improvements (SWE-bench Verified rising from 33.4% to 49.0%, surpassing all publicly available models including reasoning models), a new Claude 3.5 Haiku that matches Claude 3 Opus performance at Haiku-tier speed, and a public beta of 'computer use' — a capability allowing Claude to control computers by viewing screens, moving cursors, clicking, and typing. Computer use is available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI, with early adopters including Replit, The Browser Company, and Cognition. Both safety institutes (US AISI and UK AISI) conducted pre-deployment testing, and the model was assessed as remaining within ASL-2 under Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy.
Anthropic launches Claude in Canada with full product suite
Anthropic expanded Claude's availability to Canada as of June 5, 2024, offering access to Claude.ai, the iOS app, the API, and the Team plan. Canadian users can subscribe to Claude Pro at CA$28/month for access to the Claude 3 model family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) with 5x usage limits. The expansion is a geographic rollout with no new technical capabilities announced.
Anthropic partners with Scale AI to bring Claude to enterprise customers
Anthropic announced a partnership with Scale AI to make Claude available to enterprise customers through Scale's deployment and management platform. Scale customers gain access to Claude alongside Scale's services including prompt engineering, model validation, enterprise-grade AWS security, and data connectors for proprietary sources. The partnership is positioned as a path for businesses to move from AI experimentation to production deployment.
Salesforce integrates Anthropic Claude models into Einstein platform via Amazon Bedrock
Salesforce has partnered with Anthropic to make Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, and Claude 3 Haiku available to Salesforce customers through Amazon Bedrock via a Bring Your Own LLM feature. The integration enables Claude to power custom AI experiences and Agentforce Agent actions across CRM use cases including sales, marketing, customer service, healthcare, and financial services. Claude models are accessible through Einstein Studio and operate within Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer for security and compliance. This expands Anthropic's enterprise distribution through a major CRM platform with a large existing customer base.
Anthropic makes Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet available to US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud
Anthropic has made Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet available via AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud, marking a significant expansion into government deployment. The company has crafted contractual exceptions to its general Usage Policy to permit legally authorized foreign intelligence analysis, including combating human trafficking and identifying covert influence campaigns, while maintaining restrictions on disinformation, weapons design, and malicious cyber operations. The deployment is currently limited to ASL-2 models under Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy. Anthropic also notes prior pre-release access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet was provided to the UK AI Safety Institute for pre-deployment testing.
Anthropic and Amazon Expand Collaboration for Up to 5 Gigawatts of New Compute
Anthropic has signed a major expanded agreement with Amazon committing over $100 billion to AWS technologies over ten years, securing up to 5GW of compute capacity for training and deploying Claude across Trainium2 through Trainium4 chips. Amazon is investing an additional $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to $20 billion more possible in the future, building on $8 billion previously invested. The deal includes nearly 1GW of Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity coming online by end of 2026, expanded inference in Asia and Europe, and the full Claude Platform becoming available directly within AWS. Anthropic disclosed its run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at end of 2025.