NVIDIA Vera: The First CPU Purpose-Built for AI Agents Is Shipping
NVIDIA's first custom CPU — 88 Olympus cores, 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth, up to 1.8x faster per-core agentic performance — ships at scale to AWS, Oracle, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Models on AWS Bedrock Now Support 1M-Token Context With Up to 80% Price Cut
AWS expanded the context window for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Bedrock to 1 million tokens, with prompt caching offering a 90% discount on repeated context. AWS also announced up to 80% price reductions, aligning with OpenAI's first-party rates.
Amazon Scales Back Nova AI Models as Premier Nears End of Life
Amazon is winding down its Nova AI model line, with Premier approaching end of life and no new model releases planned. The retreat marks a rare step back for Amazon in the AI race, as the company pivots to Bedrock platform strategy.
OpenAI Frontier Models and Codex Now Available on Amazon Web Services
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Codex are now available through AWS, giving enterprise customers access to frontier AI models through their existing cloud infrastructure and billing relationships.
Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS
AWS engineers detail the infrastructure building blocks for foundation model training and inference, from B300 GPUs and EFA networking to Slurm, Kubernetes and PyTorch.
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway, the San Francisco cloud platform that amassed two million developers without marketing, raised a $100 million Series B led by TQ Ventures to fund its sub-second AI-native deployments and own data centers.