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Cloud News Mark Haranas September 26, 2023, 12:05 PM EDT

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said his $85 billion cloud company is ramping up production to provide a very robust AWS-controlled supply chain for AI chips, thanks to Amazons $4 billion investment in Anthropic.

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky (pictured) has massive plans in store for Amazons blockbuster investment of up to $4 billion in AI startup star Anthropicfrom shaking up the chip industry to hiring new talent from the likes of Intel.

Its absolutely true that there is a huge demand for all of the different chips with which people do generative AI workloads on, Selipsky said in an interview with Bloomberg. So we absolutely have already been ramping up our Trainium and Inferentia supply chain and ramping up the supply that we can create as quickly as possible.

CRN breaks down the biggest plans and initiatives Amazon has for Anthropic, CEO Selipskys boldest statements on his AI chip vision, and new AWS executive hires from Intel.

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Before jumping into AWS and Amazons plans for the AI startup, its key to note the technologies and strategy at play.

The Seattle-based $85 billion cloud giant is looking to become a global AI chip maker via its custom silicon offers Trainium and Inferentia. Anthropic is part of AWS plan to succeed as the popular AI startup will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy its future foundation models. The two companies will also collaborate in the development of future Trainium and Inferentia technology.

Theres still a whole lot of storage and compute and database workloads ramping up on AWS. So we have many sources of growth, I anticipate, but theres absolutely no doubt that generative AI looks like its going to be an explosive additional source of growth in the years ahead, said Selipsky.

Heres five key things to know about AWS custom silicon chip plans and boldest remarks from Selipsky and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodeia former vice president at OpenAIthat investors, channel partners and customers need to know.

Mark Haranas is an assistant news editor and longtime journalist now covering cloud, multicloud, software, SaaS and channel partners at CRN. He speaks with world-renown CEOs and IT experts as well as covering breaking news and live events while also managing several CRN reporters. He can be reached at mharanas@thechannelcompany.com.

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