Anthropic's April 20, 2026 agreement with Amazon combined a large long-term capacity commitment with a smaller near-term delivery target. Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies, securing up to five gigawatts of additional capacity for training and running Claude. It expected nearly one gigawatt of new capacity by the end of 2026. The distinction matters when assessing the announcement's effect on service availability: the five-gigawatt ceiling describes the broader agreement, while the year-end forecast describes the capacity expected sooner. Agreement announcement.
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inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
