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Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual ...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician. Meaning, you have to know the history to understand all of the competitors Jassy takes aim at, alongside cute personal stories about his unrealized dream of being a sportscaster and watching hockey games with his dad. Of course, Jassy doesn’t throw the gauntlet down directly. He takes a more nuanced approach. For instance, in his challenge to Nvidia, he writes, “We have a strong partnership with NVIDIA, will always have customers who choose to run NVIDIA” and will always support these chips in its cloud. But he also says: “Virtually all AI thus far has been done on NVIDIA chips, but a new shift has started.” AWS customers, he says, “want better price-performance” meaning Amazon’s own home-grown Trainium AI chips. Jassy says demand is so high for this chip that capacity for the newest one, Trainium3, is nearly sold out. Remarkably, he says that capacity is also nearly sold out for Trainium4, which still 18 months away from being available. This means that Trainium has hit a $20 billion annual revenue run rate. But if Amazon were a chipmaker that sold its wares to others, it would be at $50 billion ARR, he postulates. Granted, Nvidia did $215.9 billion in actual revenue last year. Nvidia may not be shaking in its boots, yet. Still, Jassy presents Trainium as a formidable up-and-comer. Techcrunch event San Francisco, CA | October 13-15, 2026 Jassy didn’t spare Intel either. He points out that AWS’s homegrown Graviton CPU, a competitor to the Intel x86 architecture, “is now used expansively by 98% of the top 1,000 EC2 customers,” aka some of the biggest companies in the world. Two companies even asked to “buy all of our Graviton instance capacity in 2026,” he writes (emphasis his). “We can’t agree to these requests given other customers’ needs, but it gives you an idea of the demand.” He promised that Amazon’s Starlink competitor, Amazon Leo, scheduled to launch in mid-2026 is already succeeding, too. It’s won contracts from Delta Airlines, AT&T, Vodafone, Australia’s National Broadband Network, NASA, among others. Interestingly, he also said Amazon could be looking at selling robotics one day. It may turn all the data from its 1 million warehouse robots into “robotics solutions” for industrial uses and consumers, he wrote. Is there an Amazon humanoid in ...
CEO Andy Jassy's 2025 Letter to Shareholders - About Amazon
Dear Shareholders:When I graduated from college, I wanted to be a sportscaster. After sending my resume reel to many small markets around the U.S., and only getting two nibbles, I settled on doing sports production at a major network. To make extra money, I also coached my former high school soccer team, and worked at a retail golf store. Six months later, a college classmate convinced me to interview at the consumer products company where he worked, and I spent three years as a Product Manager there. I left that job to try some of my own businesses. After deciding these businesses weren’t my calling, I tried short stints in sales and investment banking, before going back to graduate school and ending up at Amazon three days after my last final exam in May 1997.Not exactly a straight line.AWS followed lots of squiggly lines, too. The original vision included storage, compute, payments, and human intelligence. Some of those (e.g. storage and compute) became lynchpins in AWS. Others didn’t succeed. We didn’t initially plan a database service; and when we built one, our first attempt failed to get traction. We went back to the drawing board and built new relational and non-relational database services, which have resonated well and become core to millions of AWS applications. When we launched EC2 (our compute service), it was a single instance type in one availability zone, Linux-only, with no auto-scaling, load balancing, block storage, or private networking. Over time, we added those capabilities and hundreds more services. AWS was initially attractive to start-ups (companies like DoorDash, Dropbox, Pinterest, Slack, and Stripe were among many that built their businesses on AWS). Pundits said enterprises and governments would never use cloud or AWS for anything substantive. In 2008, Netflix decided to move all of its applications to AWS, then came big commitments from GE, Intuit, and others—and eventually the CIA chose AWS as their partner to build their classified cloud. Growth came fast and furious, and as it accelerated, so too did our capital expenditures (“capex”) with dilutive impact on free cash flow (“FCF”). At our 2014 AWS operating plan review, the discussion started with a senior leader at the company musing, “Tell me again why we’re doing this business?”AWS has worked out well for Amazon, but a straight line? Not really.There’s a band I like from New Zealand called “The Beths,” who’ve written several excellent records, with thought-provoking lyr...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy details AI investments and long-term strategy in ...
Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy highlighted the company's significant investments in AI and its potential to reshape customer experiences. Jassy detailed AWS's rapid AI revenue growth and Amazon's custom chip development, emphasizing a strategy of bold, long-term investments despite short-term financial headwinds. The letter also touched on advancements in robotics, rural delivery expansion, and the ...
Amazon Stock Rises As CEO Jassy Says AI Chips Business Is 'On Fire ...
Amazon stock climbed as CEO Andy Jassy said in the annual shareholder letter that the in-house AI chips business is "on fire"
