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Andy Halliday

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The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

And we know that Jeff Bezos has just recently started his new startup called Prometheus, which is another angle of Amazon's development.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

But AWS, Amazon Web Services, is where they make their money.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

They don't actually make all their money by selling retail on it.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

The main source of profitability for Amazon is Amazon Web Services.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

And now they've just, in their big confab, they get all of their associated enterprise customers and developers together, and they reveal everything that they're doing.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

They've announced a whole bunch of things.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

I don't know if you're familiar with this.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

Do you want me to just run through a top level of what AWS's announcements were about?

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

Okay, first...

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

AWS, that division of Amazon, and NVIDIA are expanding their collaboration, and they're going to deliver infrastructure in the form of not only models, but also the cloud-based infrastructure of inference computing that's using NVIDIA chips.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

And for example...

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

There's this entity over in Saudi Arabia, which is getting enormous investment from the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia called Humane.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

So Humane and NVIDIA and AWS are working in concert to build an AI zone in the Middle East using up to 150,000 NVIDIA chips.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

That's a lot of chips.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

And what AWS is building with this example is what they're calling AI factories.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

So they're going to put together for just like OpenAI is going out and building their own data centers and Meta is building their own data centers.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

Well, Amazon Web Services has data centers for hire.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

That's what Amazon Web Services.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

cloud services do.

The Daily AI Show
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Issues a Warning

You can just launch however many NVIDIA GB300 GPUs you want to.