Competitive race

Anthropic and Amazon secure up to five gigawatts of AI compute

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years for up to five gigawatts of Amazon capacity, while Amazon invested $5 billion immediately and planned up to $20 billion more.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM60confidence 92/100

Why it moved the index

A signed, quantified agreement expands frontier training and deployment capacity and competitive pressure. The score reflects capacity coming online over several years rather than treating the full headline total as immediate.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 60 · confidence 92

    New signed compute, capital, and distribution agreement materially affecting frontier-development pace.

    11 Aug 2026