About this episode
Welcome to episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt and Ryan, are holding down the fort in Justin’s absence and bringing what’s left of our audience (those of you still here after the last time they were left in charge) the latest and greatest in cloud and tech news. We’ve got undersea cables, vector storage, and even some hobos – but not the kind on trains. Plus, AWS S3 gets its Vector Victor. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week:
S3 Gets Direction: AWS Points to Vector Storage
Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3’s New AI Storage Play
S3 Finds Its Magnitude and Direction
Claude Goes to Wall Street
Anthropic’s Bull Run Into Financial Services
AI Assistant Gets Its Series 7 License
Nova Scotia: AWS Brings Regional Flavor to AI Models
The Fine-Tuning of the Shrew: Teaching Nova Models New Tricks
Nova-caine: Numbing the Pain of Model Customization
AgentCore Blimey: AWS Gives AI Agents Their License to Scale
The Agent Infrastructure: Mission Deployable
From Zero to Agent Hero: AWS Tackles the Production Problem
SageMaker Gets Its Data Act Together
From Catalog to QuickSight: A Data Love Story
The Great Data Unification of 2024
AWS Free Tier Gets a $200 Makeover
EKS-treme Makeover: Cluster Edition
#?100K Nodes Walk Into a Cluster…
S3 Gets Direction: Amazon Points to Vector Storage
Amazon S3: Now with 90% Less Vector Bills and 100% More Dimensions
Follow Up
01:03 SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
The $500 billion AI effort unveiled at the White House has struggled to get off the ground and has scaled back its near-term plans.
It’s been six months since the announcement, where they said they would spend $100B almost immediately, but now they have a more modest goal of building a small data center by the end of the year in Ohio.
Softbank committed to $30 billion earlier this year, and it is one of the largest ever startup investments by them, which led them to take on new debt and sell assets.
This investment was made alongside Stargate, giving them a role in the physical infrastructure needed for AI.
Altman, though, has been eager to secure computing power as quickly as possible a
