Amazon's Moonraker Depends on Anthropic, Not Homegrown AI

Amazon's next-generation Alexa, codenamed Moonraker, will rely on Anthropic's Sonnet reasoning models for advanced tasks rather than internal technology. Internal documents from late 2025 show hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs paired with Anthropic models for testing. The reliance underscores Amazon's inability or unwillingness to replicate frontier reasoning capability in-house, despite substantial AI infrastructure investment. It raises questions about whether Amazon's Nova models could eventually replace Anthropic's technology for production scaling.