Amazon is betting big on artificial intelligence. After the first $1.75 billion, Big Tech is betting again on Anthropic, a company owned by the ItalianAmerican twins Daniela and Dario Amodei, investing another $2.5 billion. Anthropic's artificial intelligence is called "Claude" and has made the Amodei twins world-renowned: it is considered by many experts to be more powerful and energy-efficient than Chat Gpt.

Such an investment is the largest in decades for Amazon in third-party companies. Overall, the company has reportedly raised about $7.6 billion, and among the various investors counts Google. Indeed, the California-based startup will continue to use both Amazon's and Google's cloud to "run" and train its artificial intelligence models.

If indeed Anthropic succeeds in beating OpenAI, much of the credit will go to two Italian-American siblings, Daniela and Dario Amodei. He, Dario, after a degree from Princeton, worked in several tech giants including China's Baidu, Google and finally OpenAI. Here Dario's career path intersected with that of his sister Daniela, who had previously worked for the fintech Stripe. At OpenAI, the two held several highly responsible roles, often dealing with artificial intelligence security issues as well. Then, in 2021, Dario and Daniela, along with other OpenAI researchers, decided to leave Sam Altman's group to found their own artificial intelligence startup, Anthropic, of which today Dario Amodei is CEO and Daniela Amodei president.