Amazon Invests $110 Million to Boost AI Research with Trainium Chips
Recently, Amazon announced a significant investment of $110 million for artificial intelligence (AI) research aimed at reducing reliance on Nvidia and advancing the development of its own chips. The funding will support generative AI research at universities under the project name 'Build on Trainium.' The project will provide researchers with the opportunity to use Trainium chips to develop new AI architectures, machine learning libraries, and solutions for large-scale distributed AWS Train.