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AWS

2026-08-09 07:53:34

AWS CEO says Trainium works with Nvidia systems and is not being sold as a standalone product

Amazon Web Services is leaning on a mixed AI infrastructure strategy that combines Nvidia GPUs with its own Trainium ASICs and Graviton CPUs, according to comments from AWS CEO Matt Garman in an interview with Bloomberg. Garman said the approach gives enterprise customers more precise ways to allocate computing power while managing operating costs, and he tied that model to AWS’s ability to keep winning customers and support Amazon’s sales performance. Garman also said AWS’s annualized AI revenue has reached $25 billion, with demand coming from industries including finance, healthcare, and media. The business spans model training, inference, and agent workloads. To keep up, AWS plans to continue investing in cloud infrastructure and signing long-term agreements with customers. On custom silicon, Garman said AWS had considered selling its in-house chips externally, but the company’s current priority is using Trainium and Graviton inside its own cloud infrastructure. For now, AWS does not plan to offer either chip as a standalone product for outside buyers. The report also noted that custom chip development has become a broader trend across major cloud service providers, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Meta.

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Amazon

2026-08-02 06:46:18

Amazon completes its $50 billion OpenAI investment early, securing about a 5% stake

Amazon has fully funded its $50 billion commitment to OpenAI and received roughly a 5% equity stake, implying a valuation of about $852 billion. The unusual part is timing: $35 billion of the commitment had originally been tied to conditions such as an IPO or a technical breakthrough, yet Amazon paid the full amount even though neither milestone has been met. The move came after OpenAI and Microsoft rewrote their agreement on April 27, loosening earlier exclusivity around API hosting and cloud access. Following that change, Amazon expanded an AWS deal from $38 billion to $100 billion over eight years and became the exclusive external cloud provider for OpenAI’s Frontier platform. The agreement also includes up to 2 gigawatts of Trainium compute capacity, covering Trainium3 and the planned Trainium4. Amazon is also backing Anthropic, with commitments there reaching as much as $33 billion and actual investment at $18 billion so far, showing how large its AI infrastructure bet has become.

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Amazon

2026-07-30 23:13:41

Amazon posts $200.6 billion in Q2 revenue as AWS growth hits its fastest pace in nearly 18 quarters

Amazon reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $200.606 billion on July 30, up 20% year over year, while operating income rose 43% to $27.46 billion. The company’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, generated $42.23 billion in revenue, up 36.7%, its fastest growth rate in nearly 18 quarters, with operating margin expanding to 39.4% from 32.9% a year earlier. CEO Andy Jassy said AWS AI services and the company’s in-house chip businesses, Trainium and Graviton, have each exceeded a $25 billion annualized revenue run rate and are still growing at triple-digit percentage rates. Net income climbed to $62.65 billion and earnings per share rose to $5.75 from $1.68 a year earlier. Amazon said the quarter included $53.4 billion in other income, mainly tied to valuation gains on its investment in Anthropic. The article estimated that excluding that one-off gain, core profit would have been roughly $21 billion to $23 billion, with EPS near $1.95. Over the trailing 12 months, operating cash flow reached $161.4 billion, but capital expenditures surged to $169 billion, pushing free cash flow to negative $7.6 billion from positive $18.2 billion a year earlier. Amazon also raised its full-year capital expenditure plan to $220 billion, with nearly all of the incremental spending directed to AI infrastructure.

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Amazon

2026-07-24 08:45:19

Amazon Eyes Up to $25 Billion More for Anthropic in AWS and Trainium Push

Amazon said it has added $5 billion to Anthropic and may invest another $20 billion tied to milestones. The deal links Anthropic's long-term compute spending to AWS and Amazon's Trainium chips.

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Gavin Baker

2026-07-22 04:26:13

Gavin Baker's Three Contrarian Bets: Underestimated Trainium, TSMC's Bubble Shield, Orbital Compute in Two Years

Tech investing veteran Gavin Baker reveals three contrarian bets at Sohn Conference: Amazon Trainium is the most underestimated AI chip, TSMC's conservative capacity expansion inadvertently prevents an AI bubble, and orbital compute will prove viability within two years, threatening ground data center suppliers.

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Amazon

2026-07-10 09:00:13

Amazon to Directly Sell Trainium AI Chips, Eyes $50 Billion in Annual Revenue

Amazon plans to directly sell its in-house Trainium AI chips to third parties, aiming to expand chip revenue from $20 billion to $50 billion and reduce dependence on NVIDIA.

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