Anthropic introduces Claude's in-country inference to India via Amazon Bedrock, enhancing local AI capabilities for enterprises and government agencies.

Amazon was an early investor in Anthropic, the company behind Claude, and put $13 billion in with the option to invest $20 billion more. That $13 billion stake is now worth much more, given that Anthropic is considering going public at a valuation of around $1 trillion.

Claude AI models will soon be available with in-country inference through Amazon Bedrock, enabling enterprises and government agencies to keep data within India

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The capability, which will roll out in the coming weeks, will allow requests sent through Amazon Web Services' (AWS) India endpoint to be processed on servers located in India, addressing data residen

AI startup Anthropic said its Claude models will soon be available through Amazon Bedrock with servers located in India, allowing companies in regulated sectors to process sensitive data within the country.

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