Amazon recently announced a $110 million investment in AI research to support the development of its own designed Trainium chips. This move aims to reduce Amazon's reliance on Nvidia and promote technological advancements in its cloud computing platform AWS. Note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjourney. Trainium is a machine learning chip tailored for deep learning training and inference tasks. Through this investment, Amazon hopes to encourage academic research.

Recently, Amazon announced a significant investment of $110 million for artificial intelligence (AI) research aimed at reducing reliance on Nvidia and advancing the development of its own chips. The funding will support generative AI research at universities under the project name 'Build on Trainium.' The project will provide researchers with the opportunity to use Trainium chips to develop new AI architectures, machine learning libraries, and solutions for large-scale distributed AWS Train.