Overview
- AWS says Trainium 3 delivers up to 4.4× higher performance, roughly 4× better energy efficiency, and nearly 4× more memory bandwidth versus its prior generation, figures not independently verified in the coverage.
- Trainium 3 is tightly integrated with services like Bedrock and the Nova family of models, with industrial‑scale use reported by customers such as Anthropic.
- AWS disclosed that Trainium 4 is in development with planned NVLink compatibility so customers can combine Amazon chips with Nvidia GPUs.
- Amazon Nova Forge debuts to let organizations pretrain and customize their own frontier models, while Bedrock adds 18 options including Mistral, Gemma 3, Nvidia’s Nemotron and OpenAI’s GPT OSS Safeguard.
- AWS unveiled turnkey AI Factories for high‑performance on‑prem deployments using Trainium and NVIDIA accelerators; pilots and early projects include Reddit, Siemens, Sony and a Saudi AI zone targeting about 150,000 chips.