Amazon Invests USD 110 Million to Boost AI Research with Free Access to Trainium Chips

Amazon’s cloud computing division (AWS) announced on Tuesday that it will provide free computing power to researchers interested in using its custom artificial intelligence chips, aiming to compete with Nvidia’s dominance in the field. Amazon has announced a USD 110 million investment in the Build on Trainium program, aimed at expanding AI research and training opportunities.

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Access to AWS Trainium UltraClusters

The initiative will provide university-led research teams with access to AWS Trainium UltraClusters (collections of AI accelerators that work together on complex computational tasks) to explore new AI architectures, machine learning (ML) libraries, and performance optimisations.

Trainium Chips Empower AI Challenges

AWS Trainium, the ML chip built specifically for deep learning training and inference, will enable researchers to tackle large-scale AI challenges. As part of Build on Trainium, AWS created a Trainium research UltraCluster with up to 40,000 Trainium chips, which are optimally designed for the unique workloads and computational structures of AI, Amazon said.

As part of Build on Trainium, AWS and AI research institutions are also establishing dedicated funding for new research and student education. “A researcher might invent a new model architecture or a new performance optimisation technique, but they may not be able to afford the high-performance computing resources required for a large-scale experiment,” Amazon noted.

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