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This will include both training and inference, with Amazon noting that significant Tranium 3 capacity is expected to come online this year.

The deal could help resolve Anthropic's painful inference shortage.

Anthropic said that the additional capacity will start coming online this quarter, with 1 gigawatt expected to be added by the end of the year.

As part of the deal, Anthropic will continue to serve Claude through AWS, ensuring the platform has full access to Anthropic's product lineup.

Lastly today, an interesting story out of Meta.

On the one hand, sources suggest that Meta is planning a 10% headcount reduction beginning in May, impacting around 8,000 workers, with those sources also suggesting that this is the first round of layoffs with more expected the second half of the year.

This has not been confirmed yet, but has been widely reported.

But one interesting story that is official is that Meta is launching a new training program focused on the physical trades.

Called Level Up, the initiative provides training for fiber technicians in partnership with construction firm CBRE.

The free four-week training program is available to Americans with no prior experience and is suitable, they say, for high school grads as well as mid-career professionals.

It includes classroom instruction, hands-on lab, and team activities.

Successful graduates will be offered work opportunities through Meta's contractor network, primarily working on data center construction.

These roles, Meta claims, are highly paid and in high demand.

The company says they're aiming to train thousands of people through the program to address an acute labor shortage, writing, We built this program with CBRE because the fiber technician field and broader construction industry is facing a nationwide shortage at a time when data center demand is higher than ever.

Said Dina Powell McCormick, Meta's president and vice chairman, The future of the AI revolution depends on a highly skilled U.S.

workforce, one that rises to the challenge of building and maintaining the complex systems that power innovation.

Meta is proud to invest in technician training to support our ambitious infrastructure goals.

Obviously, this is ultimately one small initiative, but what I would say is yes, more of this please.

The more that the AI industry can show the creation side of creative destruction, the better off we're going to be.

For now, that is going to do it for today's AI Daily Brief.