I would think that AWS also offers a lot of distribution opportunities for Anthropic.

If you were to place all “available money” on a continuum, at one end of the spectrum you’d have the “dumb opportunistic money” and at the other end you have “strategic/partnership capital”. The money is very cheap if it comes from people that want to jump on the bandwagon of fomo. It’s more expensive when it comes from strategic partners that know they have something to offer (and when I say cheaper I mean literally how much $ you pay per preferred share).

I would consider most professional investors in AI somewhere in the middle of this continuum. The big clouds have the rare and coveted GPUs which are the lifeline to AI companies. That gives them way better terms than what a VC firm would get.