Milestones
- Project Rainier announced2025Complete.
- Project Rainier brought fully online2026Complete.
Nova frontier modelAmazon—Amazon consolidates Nova AI strategy: sunsets Premier, Omni, Reel, Canvas; focuses resources on single frontier model led by Pieter Abbeel, due re:Invent 2026Trainium (Trainium3)Amazon—AWS launches Trainium3 UltraServers: first 3nm AI accelerator, 144 chips per server, 362 PFLOPS FP8, 50% cost savings vs. GPUPrime Air MK30Amazon—Amazon Prime Air delivers hundreds of thousands of packages in 2026; expanding to nearly 500 US cities by year-endAmazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper)Amazon—Amazon successfully launches 29 more Leo satellites; 398 launched total, 396 in orbit; beta service launching autumn 2026Graviton5Amazon—AWS launches Graviton5: 192-core ARM server CPU on 3nm, 25% faster than Graviton4, M9g instances generally availableKiroAmazon—AWS launches Kiro agentic IDE: generally available, replaces Amazon Q Developer, spec-driven development, free tier with 50/mo interactions
Project Rainier
by AmazonUS
Massive AI cluster with 500k Trainium2 chips built with Anthropic. Provides 5x Anthropic's prior compute for Claude model training.
ScalingStage 5 of 5
Operational. 500k Trainium2 chips across US. 70% larger than any prior AWS AI platform. Anthropic primary.
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