AWS backs Trainium research with $110M grant program – CIO Dive

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The cloud titan is pouring millions into university-led research in generative AI through the Build on Trainium program.
While AWS is partnered with chipmaker Nvidia, it also wants to challenge the computing status quo amid demand for capacity to support high-intensity AI workloads. 
Nvidia sustained triple-digit revenue growth for the fifth consecutive quarter with a record quarterly revenue of $30 billion, according to its latest earnings report in August. The chipmaker has become the leading provider of AI processing power amid insatiable demand. 
Nvidia also has its own version of a grant program for higher education researchers. The company provides cloud, hardware and resources to advance research in generative AI, data science, vision and other priority areas.  
Amazon tends to hold a lead partner role with Nvidia when it begins releasing chips, according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. The cloud giant was the first to offer Nvidia’s H200 chips, Jassy said. 
“While we have a deep partnership with Nvidia, we’ve also heard from customers that they want better price performance on their workloads,” Jassy said during the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call in October. “As customers approach higher scale in their implementations, they realize quickly that AI can get costly. It’s why we’ve invested in our own custom silicon in Trainium for training and Inferentia for inference.” 
The second version of AWS’ Trainium chip will begin ramping up this year, Jassy said. 
“We’re seeing significant interest in these chips,” Jassy said. “We’ve gone back to our manufacturing partners multiple times to produce much more than we’d originally planned.”
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The act took effect Thursday, but enforcement deadlines are spread out through 2027. The act could have a similar global influence to GDPR.
The infrastructure services company is creating a migration playbook to guide others into the cloud, Kyndryl SVP and Global Practice Leader Michael Bradshaw said.
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The act took effect Thursday, but enforcement deadlines are spread out through 2027. The act could have a similar global influence to GDPR.
The infrastructure services company is creating a migration playbook to guide others into the cloud, Kyndryl SVP and Global Practice Leader Michael Bradshaw said.
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