The company’s Trainium chip is used for training AI models, and is an in-house competitor to AI chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Amazon is making up to 40,000 first-generation Trainium chips available for the program, which is focused ...

Amazon.com's cloud computing unit on Tuesday said it will offer free computing power to researchers who want to use its custom artificial intelligence chips, aiming to challenge Nvidia's popularity among those researchers.

Amazon reportedly will manufacture its own artificial intelligence chips. That will put it in competition with AI darling Nvidia.

The talks highlight continued demand for Nvidia GPUs. A deal like this would also provide a boost for Amazon's AI business.

Amazon Web Services is reportedly working on a nearly half-a-billion-dollar deal to secure Nvidia processors via the cloud for IBM's AI training. Read more here.