(Reuters) -E-commerce giant Amazon has developed new generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can process images and videos in addition to text, making it less reliant on AI startup Anthropic, The Information reported on Wednesday.

In the case of Amazon and Anthropic, the companies maintain that teams are writing ‘low-level kernels,’ so that parts of the system can interface directly with the Trainium processor as hardware, in the words of spokespersons, the ‘Trainium silicon.’

Amazon has increased its investment in AI startup Anthropic with an additional $4bn, taking the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn. With the latest funding, Amazon will remain a minority investor in the AI company.

SiliconANGLE got an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Annapurna Labs, where the cloud powerhouse does the secretive work of designing and testing the upcoming generations of itsAI accelerator Trainium and custom cloud compute Graviton chips.

Amazon is reportedly building a new AI model that is multimodal to reduce their dependency on Anthropic AI which is backed by them.

AI-generated voices are synthetic voices that use AI to mimic human speech, generated by deep learning algorithms and neural networks. AI voices work by analyzing large amounts of real human speech (voice recordings) to learn patterns in intonation, pace, and accents. The AI then uses this information to convert text into speech.

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Last week, Amazon made an additional $4 billion investment into Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI. This follows a similar $4 billion investment in September 2023 to capitalize on generative AI technology. Amazon could officially announce Olympus at the annual AWS re:Invent customer conference as soon as next week.

The technology has spawned a surge in hacking attempts, says cyber chief CJ Moses, while Amazon is also using it to powerfully amp up its threat-analysis capability.

The cloud computing giant won’t dislodge the incumbent anytime soon but is hoping to reduce its reliance on the chipmaker.

E-commerce giant Amazon has developed new generative artificial intelligence that can process images and videos in addition to text.

E-commerce giant Amazon has developed new generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can process images and videos in addition to text, making it less reliant on AI startup Anthropic, The Information reported on Wednesday.