alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't make too much sense for Amazon to invest too much of their own money into AI.
They already sell a lot of the shovels for training and inference and make ample money from that, and there are enough open weight models on the market to make it infeasible to build a large enough moat.
Amazon doesn’t seem to agree:
> Instead, labor and computing power are being diverted toward a singular “frontier-model effort”
It’s a consolidation, not a withdrawal.