PYMNTS.com December 3, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anthropic are building a supercomputer that will be five times the size and have five times the performance of the one Anthropic used to train its current generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Dubbed “Project Rainier,” the EC2 UltraCluster of Trn2 UltraServers will use hundreds of thousands of Trainium2 chips for model training — five times the size of its previous cluster — AWS said in a Tuesday (Dec. 3) press release.
The Trn2 UltraServers, which were introduced Tuesday and are available in preview, are designed to provide performance and cost efficiency for customers who are training and deploying AI models and future large language models and foundation models, according to the release.
“With models...
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