Competition in the AI Cloud Is Heating Up, and Amazon Just Made a Big Move

The cloud is no longer just a data dump--it's an AI battleground, and Amazon wants to beat all comers into submission. The ethereal digital realm that we know as the cloud started as a remote space to store files and run some code. Put the two together--data and algorithms--and you have the ideal place to run AI, letting it chomp through information and do smart things with it. Big tech firms know that, and as we've explained before, competition has become fierce to provide AI on remote servers as a service to developers. Now the cloud computing leader, Amazon Web Services, has AI-savvy firms like Microsoft and Google nipping at its heels.