0952 ET - Amazon.com expects the price tags associated with generative artificial intelligence technology and applications won't be as expensive in the future, CEO Andy Jassy says in a letter to shareholders. The chips used to power AI are currently built by one provider, he says, but AWS's new Trainium chips should start to change that dynamic, as they offer 30% to 40% better price-performance than the current GPU-powered compute instances available today, Jassy says. Model training still accounts for a large amount of total AI spending, but that will shift into AI inference, where those models use their training to make predictions, he says. Inference will get more efficient in the next couple of years and continue to reduce per-unit AI costs, the CEO says. (dean.seal@wsj.com)

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