AWS Launches Project Rainier: Massive AI Supercomputing Cluster for Anthropic

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explore Amazon’s massive new AI
infrastructure project, Project Rainier, built for Anthropic and
the largest-ever deployment of Trainium2 chips by Annapurna Labs.


Highlights


00:03 — AWS is building a colossal
supercomputing cluster for Anthropic, a company that has received
a total of $8 billion in backing from Amazon. Project Rainier is
spread across multiple U.S. sites and uses hundreds of thousands
of Annapurna Labs Trainium2 accelerators, and is set to launch
later this year. One site alone, in Indiana, will feature 30
200,000-square-foot data centers.


00:36 — Gadi Hutt, Director of Product and
Customer Engineering at Annapurna Labs, said the following: "This
is the first time we're building such a large-scale training
cluster that will allow a customer — in this case, Anthropic — to
train a single model across all of that infrastructure."


01:26 — Now it's in direct competition with
OpenAI, the only other company with comparable compute and
training capabilities. This marks a major milestone in the
escalating AI arms race, and by proxy, could be a big win for
Amazon.


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