Anthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network An interesting initiative, but perhaps limited in scope by the very thing touted in the opening section of this announcement: Notably, Claude is the only frontier AI model available on all three leading cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft. For orgs taking advantage of that cloud platform ubiquity to access inference through a more established and trusted provider, their “training, technical support, and joint market development” needs can already be met at least in part by the cloud provider itself. It’s not totally clear to me whether services through this program are significantly differentiated to provide clear value in those cases; likewise for certifications from specific model providers vs. more generic ones. ...