Amazon Web Services’ free credit program for startups will now include the use of leading AI models from other providers, including Meta, Mistral AI and Cohere, in addition to its own AI platform Bedrock, the company said Tuesday. told Reuters.
This move could attract more AI startup customers to the AWS platform and minimize the costs these startups incur from using AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in January that the company’s cutting-edge AI model cost $100 million to develop.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky speaks with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei in November 2023. Photo credit: Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services
According to The Information, OpenAI rival Anthropic had to pay half of its January revenue to cloud providers like Google and Amazon.
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Amazon closed on a $4 billion investment in Anthropic last week and is making Anthropic’s AI models eligible for a free credit program. Anthropic’s latest AI model appears to be showing “meta-awareness” in internal testing.
Amazon said it has provided more than $6 billion in credits to startups over the past decade. According to Reuters, the company will provide $500,000 in credits to startups in Y Combinator’s latest January group.
Amazon isn’t the first company to offer free cloud credits to startups. Google is offering up to $350,000 in credits, and IBM is offering credits for the trial period.
Related: An OpenAI rival has developed a model that appears to have “metacognition” that has never been publicly disclosed.
