Amazon's Bold Move to Challenge Nvidia’s AI Lead.

What we’ll cover today:

⚔️ Amazon and Nvidia War Begins!

🤖 Development of AI Has Just Started. - Noam Brown

🧠 How Notion Builds AI for Millions

🔗 The Event Roundup.

Amazon and Nvidia War Begins!

Amazon’s latest move isn’t just bold—it’s a power play.

Imagine an AI chip landscape where Nvidia isn’t the only major player.

Here’s what Amazon is doing:

• Unveiling Trainium 2: Annapurna Labs’ custom chip, built for high-efficiency AI tasks.

• Testing with Big Players: Anthropic, Databricks, and others are already trying it out.

• Aiming to Cut Costs: Amazon’s goal is to lower operating costs for AWS clients and improve data center efficiency.

• Taking on Nvidia’s Market Share: This move directly challenges Nvidia’s 90% dominance in AI chips.

• Building an Independent AI Stack: Part of Amazon’s multibillion-dollar push to control its tech ecosystem from the ground up.

This isn’t just another addition to AWS.

Amazon is making a compelling case for choice, innovation, and competition.

Nvidia may still be king, but Amazon is shaking up the game.

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1. Development of AI Has Just Started. - Noam Brown

Anyone who still believes that the development of AI has reached its limits should watch this video excerpt from Noam Brown (OpenAI).

Noam Brown suggests that as AI models get more processing time in the future, they will likely develop advanced skills on their own—like backtracking and self-correcting. 

He believes that this scalable approach will drive AI’s progress, with "test-time compute" (allowing models extra time to think) becoming a powerful and essential method for enhancing AI capabilities.

Here’s The Clip

2. How Notion Builds AI for Millions

This podcast is between Dan Shipper and Simon Last, the co-founder and face behind Notion.

Simon likes to keep a low profile, even though he’s the driving force behind Notion AI, one of the most widely scaled AI applications in the world.

In his first-ever podcast interview, we get into:

• What would he build if he started Notion from scratch today with AI?

• How to get high-quality and reliable results from AI at scale.

• The future of human creativity in a world with machines that think.

Here’s The Clip

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Learn About organises data in a visually engaging format, using interactive lists, quizzes, and additional information boxes that provide definitions and context.

3. Google.org grants $1 million to Karya for inclusive AI skilling in low-income communities.

To democratise access to the AI job market, Google.org has awarded a $1 million grant to the non-profit Karya. 

This funding aims to bring AI-enabled economic opportunities to low-income communities worldwide, helping tens of thousands of people access digital tasks tied to AI, such as data annotation and language-based AI training.