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Amazon Rises in the AI Race

Amazon Rises in the AI Race

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 Focuses on Amazon’s strategic comeback in the artificial intelligence (AI) arena, underscored by a $38 billion cloud deal with OpenAI aimed at strengthening its position in the competitive cloud computing market. The partnership marks a turning point for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has faced criticism for falling behind Microsoft and Google in the AI race.
To counter this, Amazon is significantly increasing its capital expenditure on AI-related infrastructure, including the launch of an $11 billion data center, in an effort to match the scale of its competitors’ investments. This renewed push comes after a period of internal turbulence, including executive departures and market share erosion.
Analysts view the OpenAI agreement and Amazon’s strong quarterly earnings as signs that AWS now has a credible strategy to recover its lost ground, expand its cloud contract backlog, and reestablish itself as a major force in AI. Overall, the source portrays Amazon as finally embracing the large language model revolution, signaling a shift from defensive repositioning to full-scale engagement in next-generation AI development.
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