Amazon's Anthropic Windfall | Raleigh News

Raleigh News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 6, 2026 · 1m

Amazon’s first-quarter earnings exploded thanks to its $74 billion stake in Anthropic — the AI startup behind Claude — which delivered a pre-tax gain of $16.8 billion, more than 40% of Amazon’s total pre-tax income. With Anthropic preparing for a potentially record-breaking IPO, Amazon’s investment could now be worth $135–$160 billion, and the company plans to add another $20 billion. Anthropic’s valuation has soared from $4 billion to nearly $50 billion in revenue, fueled by deep commercial ties: Amazon will supply $100 billion in chips and cloud services over the next decade, while AWS…