Amazon, Microsoft and Google Are Quietly Morphing Their Businesses — and Wall Street Is Missing the Big Picture
Tech giants are shifting from solely providing computing power to distributing AI models, unlocking a lucrative new revenue stream. Cloud platforms like AWS Bedrock and Microsoft Azure are seeing a wave of interest as buyers look for vendor-agnostic systems to deploy custom AI tools.Alphabet, Amazon.com and Microsoft have become some of the largest companies in the world. And one analyst thinks the party is just getting started as these hyperscalers expand their growth beyond artificial-intelligence data centers.As enterprises race to adopt AI, Alphabet , Amazon and Microsoft are "quietly shifting from being providers of AI compute capacity to becoming AI model and product-distribution hubs for OpenAI and Anthropic to scale in the enterprise," UBS analyst Karl Keirstead wrote in a Wednesday note.For example, Amazon has been steadily strengthening its partnership with Anthropic, investing $5 billion in the Claude creator in April. Anthropic has agreed to spend more than $100 billion
