Amazon Web Services (AWS) is giving artificial intelligence (AI) researchers who want to use its Tranium chips free computing power. In what is likely an effort to challenge Nvidia's popularity among researchers, AWS is giving credits to use its cloud computing capacity with a value of up to $110 million to researchers.

Amazon: AWS said researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley, are taking part in the program. The company plans to make 40,000 of the first-generation Trainium chips available for the program.

Amazon is reportedly working on its own AI processor to lessen its reliance on NVIDIA for AI chips. The initiative will also add pressure on Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip business. The e-commerce giant is reportedly getting ready to debut its AI chips and this comes as Amazon is attempting to claim a fair