Amazon Announces Supercomputer, New Server Powered by Homegrown AI Chips

AWS' megacluster of chips for AI startup Anthropic will be among the world’s largest, it said, and its new giant server will lower the cost of AI as it seeks to build an alternative to Nvidia

Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services Tuesday announced plans for an “Ultracluster,” a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds of thousands of its homegrown Trainium chips, as well as a new server, the latest efforts by its AI chip design lab based in Austin, Texas.

The chip cluster will be used by the AI startup Anthropic, in which the r…