Following the surprising surge of DeepSeek’s reasoning-savvy genAI, Big Tech companies skidded over renewed questions regarding enormous AI investments. But Amazon is responding to DeepSeek’s claims of cheaper AI training by massively increasing its capital expenditures. CEO Andy Jassy contended that lower technology costs do not translate into reduced spending, underlining the firm’s strategy to…
Amazon, Apple and NVIDIA compete for GPU talent with salaries of $300k or more
Tech giants are assembling AI supercomputers of unprecedented scale. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Elon Musk’s xAI are building clusters boasting 100,000 or more H100 GPUs, with xAI planning to double its Colossus system to 200,000 GPUs — including the upcoming H200 model. To put this in perspective, OpenAI reportedly trained GPT-4 using roughly 25,000 A100…