[ralph84]

This was an opportunistic hit job by Amazon. After the SpaceX IPO, Amazon realized there was a good chance Anthropic's post-IPO market cap would exceed Amazon's. No doubt they are maneuvering behind the scenes for regulations that the big cloud vendors be the only authorized operators of LLMs for national security reasons.

[gordonhart]

Amazon owns 15-20% of Anthropic.

[ralph84]

They don't have a seat on the board. They're smart enough to understand the threat to their business posed by frontier models they don't control.

[alchemism]

The next % stake will be acquired at a discount, it seems.