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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a strategic collaboration with AI startup Anthropic, committing up to $4 billion to advance generative AI technologies. This partnership designates AWS as Anthropic’s primary cloud provider, granting Anthropic access to AWS’s robust computing infrastructure, including Trainium and Inferentia chips, for building, training, and deploying future AI models. Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI members, is recognized for its AI assistant, Claude, which emphasizes safety and reliability in AI interactions. By integrating Anthropic’s models into Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s fully managed service, customers can seamlessly incorporate generative AI capabilities into their applications. This collaboration underscores AWS’s commitment to advancing AI technologies and providing customers with innovative solutions to enhance their operations.

Amazon just announced a new suite of Foundation Models: Amazon Nova. This is yet again a new shift from Amazon Web Services (AWS). I think, over the last 2 years, AWS focused on providing the infrastructure for deploying Generative AI solutions while staying agnostic to specific models and only leveraging strategic partnerships with some vendors like Anthropic. But today, they're entering the game with their own models, again. They had Amazon Titan models before, but they didn't promote them or market them the same way at the time, they were focused on gaining the biggest marketshare of GenAI infrastructure. This move reinforces Amazon AWS's position as a strong and established cloud provider with AI models similar that can be standardized and optimized with the infrastructure, making it even easier for customers to leverage off-the-shelf solutions and serverless technology even more. This can also optimize the performance and cost efficiency for AWS customers (reported to be ~75% cheaper) that might end up getting the best of two worlds: models and infrastructure bundled together streamlining the whole process for developers and customers. They are also getting into the AI Chip and supercomputers... 🤔 Finally, AWS can use the feedback from its customers to tailor their offering for specific industry verticals where Gen AI adoption is accelerating. Some people might think they are late in the Foundation Models battle and Nova's scores in the benchmarks are not disruptive, but as I said before, I believe this is a strategic move to close the loop on AI implementations offering the whole package at a competitive cost and optimized performance. It's never too late to get in the game as long as your plan has strong foundations and promising future. Check out the official announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gnDaTffV #AWS #AmazonNova #GenerativeAI #GenAI #CloudComputing

Thrilled about the debut of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Nova Foundation Models at AWS re:Invent 2024! Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro are 75% more cost-effective than the leading models in their intelligence classes within Amazon Bedrock. Notably, they stand out as the quickest models in their intelligence categories within Amazon Bedrock. This unveiling will empower Financial Services customers to accelerate revenue generation using GenAI and AI models on AWS. #aws #financialservices Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e3XWDR4H

#GenAI is reshaping the future of #development 🦾🤖 #AWS is setting a new standard for developer productivity with #AmazonQ, a powerful GenAI tool transforming how #developers work. AWS CEO Matt Garman explains how Amazon Q enables faster coding, smarter debugging, and greater creativity, giving developers the tools to tackle complex challenges head-on. #GenerativeAI like Amazon Q isn’t just enhancing workflows, it’s redefining how we build the future of tech. As #AI continues to reshape development processes, tools like this empower developers to focus on what matters most: #innovation 🚀🚀 🔗 in the comments 👇 #AmazonWebServices #LLM #RAG #AIassistant #Cloud

#AWS Levels Up: Bedrock, Nova Models & Project Rainier Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making waves at re:Invent 2024, doubling down on enterprise AI and next-gen infrastructure. From the launch of Amazon Nova, a suite of state-of-the-art foundation models, to the unveiling of the Project Rainier AI compute cluster, AWS is reshaping the AI landscape. Key Announcements: 1️⃣ Amazon Nova Models: Six new foundation models supporting multimodal tasks (text, image, video) were launched, promising industry-leading performance and cost efficiency. These models integrate with Amazon Bedrock, AWS's fully managed service for building generative AI applications, now enhanced with Automated Reasoning checks and Model Distillation for faster, cost-effective training. 2️⃣ Project Rainier: A mega compute cluster powered by hundreds of thousands of Trainium2 chips. These chips boast 96 GB of ultra-fast memory and deliver 332 petaflops of performance per server. AWS addressed latency challenges of distributed systems with its Elastic Fabric Adapter, ensuring scalability without sacrificing speed. Why It Matters: AWS is betting big on generative AI, focusing on cost efficiency, scalability, and performance—key drivers for enterprise adoption. With projects like Rainier and Ceiba (another AI cluster leveraging Nvidia chips), AWS is positioning itself as the AI infrastructure leader. With AI becoming a cornerstone for every app, how will AWS’s advancements shape the competition with other cloud giants? #AWS #AIInfrastructure #Bedrock #AmazonNova #ProjectRainier #GenerativeAI #CloudInnovation #SaaSverse

The move further positions the Amazon-Anthropic combination as a counterpart to the duo of Microsoft and OpenAI Anthropic will train and deploy its future foundation models using AWS #Trainium and #Inferentia #chips, the company added. #WinWin #ReInvent2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Capgemini

Amazon is considering a second multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI. However, a key point of negotiation between the companies is which chips Anthropic will use to train its Claude models. AWS is pushing for Anthropic to use a significant number of servers powered by its in-house chips. Anthropic, however, prefers Amazon servers equipped with Nvidia's AI chips. The total size of Amazon’s investment may ultimately depend on the outcome of this discussion, particularly on the number of Amazon chips Anthropic agrees to utilize. More details in The Information:

"I guarantee you there is not a single application that you can think of that is not going to be made better by AI...It is absolutely competitive. Benchmarks extraordinarily well. It's a world-class foundation model. It's a frontier model. And it's very, very price performant". ~ Jeff Bezos With Amazon Nova, cost savings shouldn’t be a footnote - they belong front and center. Reducing expenses isn’t just a technical detail; it’s a strategic advantage. Customers deserve to know that Nova delivers industry-leading performance, vast context windows (up to 300k), and multimodal capabilities at a fraction of the typical price. #AWSreInvent Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Austin, Texas is a tech innovation center for major advancements in the near future. Amazon bought Annapurna, the maker of the newly announced chips that cut AI training and workload bills in half, and planted all of the design operations together. Then Amazon inked a deal with Anthropic, arguably the most innovative application of AI models at the moment to use those chips. Add the amazing new SageMaker workflows, features and user experience for making custom AI solutions and running it on fantastic infrastructure. Wow! Think about the industry players like Snowflake and Databricks, who have compute and infrastructure workloads on Amazon that they could silently distribute workloads too and reduce their on costs and make a decision to pass that on or not to customers. I am watching to see if open standards prevail and to what extend they allow interoperability. It’s great for customers that all the big guys are investing hard to commoditize and expand access to these services. Time to round out my research looking at Microsoft and Google. If you have any great insights, please share them with me.

🚀 Game-changing news for #AI developers from the floor of #AWSreInvent 2024! #AWS just introduced prompt #caching and #routing will be supported on #Bedrock, cutting costs and latency without compromising accuracy. This means faster response times and significant savings for businesses using Amazon Bedrock and other AWS gen-AI services. The future of AI deployment is here, let’s go build!