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   by cobolcomesback 10mo ago

   This is the Anthropic press release from last year saying they will use Trainium: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-trainium This is the AWS press release from last month saying Anthropic is using 500k
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   by cobolcomesback 10mo ago

   A dependency that forms the foundation of your build process, distribution mechanisms, and management of other dependencies is a materially different risk than a dependency that, say, colorizes terminal output. I’m doubtful that alone motiv
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   by cobolcomesback 10mo ago

   Ironically these chips are being targeted at inference as well (the AWS CEO acknowledged the difficulties in naming things during the announcement).
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   by cobolcomesback 10mo ago

   AWS has built 20 data centers in Indiana full of half a million Trainium chips explicitly for Anthropic. Anthropic is using them heavily. The same press announcement that Anthropic has made about Google TPUs is the exact same one they made
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   by cobolcomesback 10mo ago

   This wouldn’t have specifically helped in this situation (EC2 reading from S3), but on the general topic of preventing unexpected charges from AWS: AWS just yesterday launched flat rate pricing for their CDN (including a flat rate allowance
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   by cobolcomesback 10mo ago

   AWS just yesterday launched flat rate pricing for their CDN (including a flat rate allowance for bandwidth and S3 storage), including a guaranteed $0 tier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975411 I agree that it’s lik