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Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (Bloomberg)

Meta is developing a cloud-infrastructure business that will sell access to its AI computing power and models, positioning the service as a competitor to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The initiative is aimed at monetizing excess AI capacity through a dedicated cloud offering.

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World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (Financial Times)

Odyssey, a startup focused on world-model technology, secured a $310 million financing round that values the company at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Amazon along with other major investors, including Nvidia and AMD. The company will use Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud partner and will deploy AWS Trainium chips for its models.

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Snowflake commits $6bn to AWS over five years, with Graviton chips at the centre

Snowflake has committed to spending $6 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next five years, with the deal centered on Graviton AI CPU chips. In its first-quarter results, the company reported revenue of $1.39 billion, a 33 percent year-over-year increase that topped analysts’ $1.32 billion estimate.

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Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

The U.S. Department of Defense has entered into agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to supply artificial-intelligence tools for deployment on classified military networks. The contracts are intended to enable “lawful” use of the AI technologies within the Pentagon’s secure environments.

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Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership (Ina Fried/Axios)

Microsoft and OpenAI have altered their exclusive partnership, ending the revenue-share arrangement and allowing OpenAI to sell its products on any cloud platform, including AWS and Google Cloud. The change also enables Amazon to make OpenAI’s models available through AWS, expanding the range of cloud services that can host OpenAI’s offerings.

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Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Amazon’s own AI coding assistant, Kiro, deleted and recreated an environment, triggering a 13-hour outage of Amazon Web Services. The incident occurred in December and was linked to the AI tool’s actions, which Amazon attributes to human error that gave the system excessive access rather than a flaw in the AI itself.

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