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Amazon’s AI checkbook is open again
Amazon is reportedly pledging up to $25 billion more to Anthropic, turning its AI romance into something that looks a lot less like a fling and a lot more like a long-term lease. If you’ve been wondering whether Amazon is serious about staying in the AI race, this is the company equivalent of saying it with a megaphone.
Why this matters for your portfolio
This isn’t just Amazon writing a big check because it has one. The whole point is to deepen AWS’s role in the AI stack, which is where the real prize lives. If Anthropic keeps growing, Amazon gets to look less like the company playing catch-up and more like the cloud landlord collecting rent from the AI boom.
The market angle
For AMZN, the bigger question is whether these massive AI investments eventually translate into faster cloud growth, stickier enterprise customers, and more pricing power. That’s the kind of story Wall Street loves — especially when everyone else is busy trying to build the next shiny chatbot.
- More investment means more exposure to AI demand
- More Anthropic activity could help validate AWS as an AI platform
- But it also means Amazon keeps spending heavily before the payoff is fully visible
Big picture: Amazon is betting that if AI is the new electricity, it might as well own the power lines.