Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman opened the cloud computing service's 13th annual re:Invent conference by observing:"Generative AI has the potential to disrupt every single industry out there."
"Graviton delivers 40 percent better price performance than x86," claimed Garman."It uses 60 percent less energy." AWS is doubling down on that partnership, Garman declared, with plans to launch instances next year featuring Nvidia's forthcoming Blackwell chips. Benoit Dupin, senior director of machine learning and AI at Apple, made a brief appearance to plug Apple Intelligence and – rather unusually for the inwardly focused iGiant – Apple's relationship with AWS.
"What we did is we added a hardware reference clock in every single EC2 instance all around the world," explained Garman."And those hardware reference clocks sync with satellite-connected atomic clocks. So that means that every EC2 instance now has microsecond-precision accurate time that's in sync with any instance anywhere in the world."