[paxys]

Is Amazon trying to build a competitive foundation model? From what I can see AWS is instead focused on hosting and re-licensing Claude, Cohere, DeepSeek and others via Bedrock. And it's pretty likely that a large chunk of this $200M will anyways go to AWS. So I'd hardly call them a loser here.

[corlinp]

Amazon has a number of foundation models under the name Amazon Nova, which they claimed were SOTA on release but I haven't heard much at all about them since.

[VHRanger]

They're far from SOTA:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llm-benchmark.html

nova pro is worse than llama3-70B

[ryoshu]

They are not good...

[XorNot]

Aka the "sell gold pans during a gold rush" strategy.

AFAIK AWS are pushing pretty hard with GovCloud these days.

[base698]

I think that would be power components like transformers for the grid.

[thfuran]

Those were the people selling lumber to sawmills that eventually ended up as handles for picks.