Amazon Just Landed a $38 Billion OpenAI Deal
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Amazon.com will supply OpenAI with cloud computing services under a multi-year $38 billion deal, giving the ChatGPT maker access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its artificial intelligence models.
Andy Jassy explains Amazon’s 14,000 layoffs, buying Nvidia chips, upcoming Trainium3 AI chips, AWS capacity and sales growth, and its Bedrock AI agent platform.
User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.
The company that invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence.
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AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI
When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.
Cipher Mining jumped to a new all-time high on Monday, as investors cheered its new $5.5 billion high-performance computing (HPC) agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its impressive earnings
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Amazon reports higher sales and earnings for 3Q, helped by its fast-growing web services business
Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.
Amazon turned in strong third-quarter results, led by growth at AWS. Meanwhile, its e-commerce operations continue to see strong operating leverage. The stock looks reasonably valued with growth set to pick up.
On Wednesday Amazon announced the completion of its data-center initiative Project Rainier, which will primarily be used to service Anthropic's compute needs. The company expects Anthropic's Claude to be using over one million of Amazon's custom Trainium2 chips by year-end.
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50+ AWS services explained in just 10 minutes
Amazon Web Services can feel overwhelming, with dozens of tools and products covering everything from computing and storage to AI and security. This video simplifies it all by breaking down over 50 AWS services - clearly and efficiently - in just 10 minutes.