Partly they do this to keep their ML researchers entertained after the glitz of their $1M compensation wears off. And partly they do this to develop products fo

Partly they do this to keep their ML researchers entertained after the glitz of their $1M compensation wears off. And partly they do this to develop products for their customers. Although they partnered with Anthropic, whose arguably SOTA models are vastly superior, AWS has an extremely diverse set of customers with simpler requirements that may be quite thoroughly satisfied with a 7B parameter model.