Amazon’s Plan for ‘Ultracluster’ Supercomputer

Amazon is collaborating with Anthropic, an AI company, to develop one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers, known as Project Rainer. This supercomputer will utilize hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s Trainium 2 AI chips and is expected to be five times more powerful than the clusters currently used by Anthropic.

At the AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon introduced the Trainium 3 chip, which promises four times the performance of its predecessor and is slated for release in late 2025. These advancements aim to make generative AI more cost-effective, reliable, and accessible for businesses. Amazon also unveiled tools like Model Distillation, Bedrock Agents, and Automated Reasoning to enhance AI model efficiency and accuracy.

These initiatives reflect Amazon’s strategic push to expand its generative AI capabilities, positioning itself as a significant competitor to companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google.

Source: Wired

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