Snowflake has signed a massive five-year agreement with Amazon worth $6 billion to secure chips for AI usage. The deal is framed as another win for AWS as major data and cloud platforms lock in long-term compute capacity. TechCrunch also notes that Nvidia is being put on notice as alternative AI chip supply paths gain attention.
Snowflake 推出全新開源企業級大語言模型 Arctic,採用 MoE(混合專家)架構。Replicate 迅速跟進,提供託管 API 服務。開發者現在無需自行配置昂貴的 GPU 硬體,只需透過 Replicate 的 API 或 SDK,即可用極低的成本與簡單的程式碼,在雲端部署並運行這款強大的開源模型。