In the fiercely competitive AI market, Amazon’s unveiling of a cutting-edge artificial intelligence chip for its cloud computing platform intensified its rivalry with Microsoft.
Amazon Web Administrations (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky made the declaration for the new chips, known as Graviton4 and Trainium2. According to Selipsky, the chips are the second generation of AI training chips and feature significant speed and energy efficiency enhancements.
Amazon’s move comes after Microsoft introduced its own AI chip, Maia. Notwithstanding Microsoft, AWS will likewise confront contest from Google’s Tensor Handling Unit (TPU), which has been accessible to distributed computing clients beginning around 2018.
As the development of cutting-edge technologies like large language models continues to increase, AWS intends to make the new training chips available in the coming year. AWS announced that it will offer Nvidia’s most recent chips on its cloud service in addition to its own chip innovations, giving customers additional options.