Timeline
Matt Garman serving as AWS CEO made statement about A100 servers being sold out and never retired
Amazon announces $25 billion investment in Anthropic
Released V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters
Released DeepSeek-V4 with 1M-token context at 10% KV cache cost
Initiates first external fundraising round, targeting at least $300M at a $10B+ valuation to set a benchmark for employee stock options.
Delays to DeepSeek-V4 model due to Huawei Ascend chip compatibility work
Lost core researchers Luo Fuli to Xiaomi and Guo Daya to ByteDance
Seeking first external funding round of $300M+ at $10B+ valuation
Announced a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fees.
Launched 'Generative AI on AWS' developer hub to consolidate its AI services and tools.