AWS Offers $110 Million In Free Credits To Compete With Nvidia In AI Chips

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering $110 million in free credits to researchers using its custom AI chips, Trainium, to compete with Nvidia. The initiative aims to provide access to 40,000 Trainium chips for AI model development, with participants from Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley. AWS plans to allow direct programming of the chips, contrasting Nvidia’s reliance on proprietary software.