Amazon Announces Supercomputer, New Server in Push To Take on Nvidia | Global News Avenue

Amazon (Amazon) is building a Artificial Intelligence (AI) a supercomputer made from its in-house Trainium chips, as well as new servers said to be used by artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.

‘Ultracluster’ announced by tech giants Amazon Web Services (AWS) The cloud computing arm was designed at Amazon’s lab-on-a-chip in Austin, Texas. wall street journal reported. Amazon invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic last month, and the company Claude Chatbots are OpenAI competitors Chat GPT.

Amazon said: “AWS is working with Anthropic to build an EC2 UltraCluster of Trn2 UltraServers called Project Rainier, which contains hundreds of thousands of Trainium2 chips and more than 5 times the number of exaflops to train the current generation of leading AI models. ”

Exaflops are a measure of supercomputer performance.

The Wall Street Journal says Trainium is positioned as a “viable alternative” to Nvidia GPUs

according to Magazinenew chips and servers highlight AWS’s commitment to homegrown Trainium, which it positions as a “viable alternative” Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) seller Hao Qi Competitor NVIDIA (NVDA).

Amazon shares rose 0.7% in pre-market trading and are up 40% year to date as of Tuesday.