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Amazon attempts to lure AI researchers with $110M in grants and credits
AWS is launching a new program, Build with Trainium, that'll provide free credits and resources to AI researchers.
Google’s Trillium, a custom chip for training and running AI models, recently entered preview, and Microsoft’s Maia is expected to follow in short order. “This feels like an effort on generalizing a corruption of academic research funding,” Os Keyes, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington who studies the ethical impact of emerging technologies, told TechCrunch. An AWS spokesperson later clarified that a committee of “AI and application practitioners” will review proposals and select “the most impactful and promising projects that will help advance machine learning science forward.”
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