Amazon is loosening the secrecy around its data center dealings while simultaneously deepening its ties to publicly funded research, a twin move that signals how the cloud giant intends to keep its infrastructure expansion on track.
Under a program unveiled Thursday, the company committed up to $50 million in AWS cloud credits spread across three years to support the expansion of the White House’s Genesis Mission. Dubbed the Golden Age of Science Accelerator, the initiative is designed to channel specialized computing capacity toward large-scale scientific projects — and it binds Amazon more closely to government-backed technology research in the process.
A day earlier, AWS had rolled out its Physical AI Toolchain, a development and deployment solution built directly into Nvidia’s Physical AI Stack. The offering targets developers working on physical artificial intelligence, the branch of the field that powers robotics and industrial automation, and leans on…
