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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…
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