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Since last September, the tech giant has pumped $8 billion into the artificial intelligence start-up, a sign of intense competition in developing tools that are reshaping the tech sector.

Amazon said on Friday that it would invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, a start-up that competes with OpenAI and Google in the increasingly competitive field of artificial intelligence.

Over the past 14 months, Amazon has poured $8 billion into Anthropic, a sign of the urgency the tech giant feels to keep pace with its rivals in developing new A.I. tools that are reshaping the tech sector.

Money continues to flow into the biggest A.I. start-ups. Elon Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise new financing that could value the company at about $40 billion. In October, OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, bringing the company’s value to $157 billion.

“We’ve been impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and commitment to responsible development of generative A.I., and

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