Who's who in AIAI glossary
Amazon
The online retail giant is also the world's leading cloud provider with AWS, which rents servers and AI chips to businesses. It has invested several billion in Anthropic and has upgraded its voice assistant Alexa with generative AI.
In other words
A large part of the internet runs on its servers: when AWS goes down, thousands of sites and applications go down with it.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- The week AI went "super"
Exodus at OpenAI, assistants that work non-stop, AI rebranded as "superintelligence": the week's key stories in five minutes.
- Anthropic: half of sales go through its rivals
According to Reuters, 47% of Anthropic's sales in 2025 went through Amazon and Google, which are at once its investors, its suppliers and its competitors.
- A nanolaser that could halve the energy consumption of chips
Researchers have developed a nanometre-scale laser that could allow chips to communicate using light, with consumption potentially halved. We look at where this research stands and its realistic timeline.
- Qualcomm and Amazon team up on inference chips
Qualcomm and AWS have announced a collaboration to jointly design chips dedicated to inference. We analyse what this tie-up reveals about the reshaping of the silicon market.
- Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: the end of an era for invisible work
Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk, the microtask marketplace launched in 2005. We analyse what this closure reveals about the evolution of human labour behind AI.
- $500 million in 30 days: the company that discovered the true price of open-access AI
The story sounds absurd: a company that spends half a billion dollars on AI in 30 days, by accident. But when you look closely at what is happening in large companies in 2026, it is no longer a one-off. It is the wake-up call of a usage bubble that has just hit the wall of economic reality. Microsoft, Uber, Amazon: everyone is affected.