Amazon Unveils AI Supercomputer and Custom Chips at AWS re:Invent 2024

Apple is utilizing Amazon Web Services' custom AI chips, such as Trainium and Graviton, for services like search and is considering using the new Trainium2 chip for pre-training its models. This collaboration, revealed at the AWS Reinvent conference, highlights Apple's endorsement of AWS as a cloud service provider amidst competition from Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Apple's use of Amazon's chips has resulted in significant efficiency gains, and this move signals a potential shift towards non-Nvidia AI training approaches.