Lets not pretend this is strategy. Amazon has been trying and failing to hire top AI people. No-one in their right minds would join. Even Meta has to shell out 8-9 figures for top people, who with any modicum of talent or self respect would go to Amazon rather than Anthropic, OAI, GDM? They bought Adept, everyone left.

AWS is also falling far behind Azure wrt serving AI needs at the frontier. GCP is also growing at a faster rate and has a way more promising future than AWS in this space.

AWS is very far behind, its already impacting the stock. Without a winning AI offering, all new cloud money is going to GCP and Azure. They have a huge problem