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The big story today, without question, even bigger than the Mideast, is Amazon.
AI says Amazon is building one of the world's largest AI supercomputers. In fact, when completed, as it stands now, Project Rainier will result in the world's biggest supercomputer.
Amazon is building one of the world's largest AI supercomputers, Project Rainier, in collaboration with Anthropic.
It will be powered by Amazon's Trainium2 AI chips and is expected to be five times larger than the cluster used for Anthropic's current most powerful model.
Once completed, it's anticipated to be the largest reported AI machine globally.
Key Details:
Collaboration: Amazon and Anthropic are co-developing the supercomputer.
Purpose: It will be used for training large AI models, including Anthropic's future models.
Chips: The supercomputer will utilize Amazon's Trainium2 AI chips.
Size: Project Rainier is expected to be significantly larger than existing AI supercomputers.
Availability: It's scheduled for completion in 2025.
Location: The project is located in the U.S.
Cost-effectiveness: Amazon claims the Trainium2 chips will offer better price performance than current GPU-powered instances.
Note: the AWS news is breaking and some of it may be in error. I will sort it out later, but this is how I understand it now.
AWS: announced today -- will compete directly with Nvidia -- will sell "new" chips to Anthropic, thus diverting some Nvidia chips away from Anthropic. These AWS chips will be significantly lower priced that Nvidia. The AWS business model is completely different than the AWS business model with regard to chips sales.
Amazon is providing its custom-designed Trainium and Inferentia AI chips to Anthropic, an AI startup, as part of a deepened strategic collaboration. Anthropic will use these chips to train and deploy its future foundation models, including its Claude series of AI models. This collaboration also involves Amazon investing an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing Amazon's total investment to $8 billion
Meanwhile, still with Amazon:
AWS has recently unveiled Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip designed to significantly reduce the costs of quantum error correction.
Developed by the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Ocelot aims to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum computers. It utilizes a novel architecture with "cat qubits" to suppress errors and incorporates error correction into the chip's design.
