The AI 5

AWS announces custom Trainium 3 chip, Scale AI valued at $25B, AI energy demand surges

By Mallika Iyer

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AWS announces Trainium 3 chip

Amazon announced Trainium 3, its third-generation AI training chip, claiming 3x training performance over Trainium 2. The chip will power new P6 instances available in Q3 2026. Amazon says internal teams are already migrating workloads from NVIDIA GPUs.

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Scale AI raises at $25B valuation

Scale AI closed a $1B round at $25B post-money valuation. The company has expanded beyond data labeling into AI evaluation, red-teaming, and government contracts. Revenue reportedly exceeded $1.5B in 2025.

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