{"id":1016159,"date":"2026-06-22T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016159"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:17:04","slug":"amazon-just-made-one-of-its-most-lucrative-bets-in-its-history-and-it-is-not-through-its-own-business-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/22\/amazon-just-made-one-of-its-most-lucrative-bets-in-its-history-and-it-is-not-through-its-own-business-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon just made one of its most lucrative bets in its history, and it is not through its own business but \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has turned its $8 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic into one of the most lucrative bests in its history. According to a report by Business Insider, as per a quarterly filing from late April, Amazon\u2019s stake in Anthropic is now worth roughly $74,2 billion on paper, which clearly reflects the meteoric rise in the valuation of the company. Founded in 2021, Anthropic witnessed its valuation climb from $61.5 billion last year to $183 billion and then $380 billion earlier this year. Most recently the company achieved the valuation of $965 billion surpassing rival OpenAI as the world\u2019s most valuable AI startup. Amazon\u2019s holdings in Anthropic include $42.2 billion in convertible notes and $32 billion in nonvoting preferred stock, which together account for the $74.2 billion figure disclosed in the filing.<\/p>\n<p>Gains flowing into Amazon\u2019s earnings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has turned its $8 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic into one of the most lucrative bests in its history. According to a report by Business Insider, as per a quarterly filing from late April, Amazon\u2019s stake in Anthropic is now worth roughly $74,2 billion on paper, which clearly reflects the meteoric rise in the valuation of the company. Founded in 2021, Anthropic witnessed its valuation climb from $61.5 billion last year to $183 billion and then $380 billion earlier this year. Most recently the company achieved the valuation of $965 billion surpassing rival OpenAI as the world\u2019s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016160,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016159\/revisions\/1016160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}