AI startup Anthropic will collaborate with Amazon Web Services and put the supercomputer to work with its AI technology.

Both AWS and Nvidia are rushing to get their flagship AI offerings to market amid booming demand, though Nvidia shipments have been limited by supply chain constraints.

The company’s megacluster of chips for artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic will be among the world’s largest, it said, and its new giant server will lower the cost of AI as it seeks to build an alternative to Nvidia.

Software application development code assistants in the decade before now worked as what we could call smart autocomplete tools.

Invent conference, AWS today announced a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub Copilot. The focus here is on going beyond code completion and to help developers with a wider range of routine tasks involved in the end-to-end software lifecycle.