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OpenAI’s AWS Debut
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What we’ll cover today:
☁️ AWS gets its first taste of OpenAI models
🏄♂️ Cognition’s Windsurf buyout drama
📊 SaaS leaders weigh in on the changing AI landscape
OpenAI (the ChatGPT folks) and Amazon Web Services are teaming up for the first time, bringing new AI models to AWS customers.
🚨 Breaking News:
AWS will now offer two new OpenAI open-weight reasoning models, a first-time collab that shakes up the cloud AI race.
⚡ Wire Simplified –
AWS finally joins the OpenAI party, previously a Microsoft-exclusive vibe.
Models will be available in AWS Bedrock & SageMaker services.
Enterprises can now easily plug OpenAI models into their AWS apps.
This also adds tension to OpenAI’s already strained Microsoft partnership.
Meta gets side eyed as OpenAI keeps releasing models open source.
✔️ Straight to the Point –
OpenAI is playing the field, AWS gets a taste of its tech, and Microsoft might be feeling a little jealous right now.
🎤 Will AWS offering OpenAI models change the AI market balance? |
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Cognition, an AI coding startup, just bought rival Windsurf, but now wants most of the team to consider quitting.
🚨 Breaking News:
Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition laid off 30 people and offered buyouts to 200 more, with tough stay or go terms.
⚡ Wire Simplified –
Windsurf’s journey: almost bought by OpenAI → leaders poached by Google → finally bought by Cognition.
Cognition promised to keep the “world class” team… until now.
Buyout offer: nine months’ salary to leave.
Staying means six days in office, 80+ hours a week.
CEO says they “don’t believe in work life balance.”
✔️ Straight to the Point –
Cognition wanted Windsurf’s tech, not its people. Now it’s offering cash to exit or grueling hours to stay.
There are things that regular code will always do better than AI.
In fact, most software will still rely on ol’ plain regular code, not LLMs.
I remember when OOP became a thing. Everyone and their mother wanted to write classes instead of structured functions.
It’s hard to
— Santiago (@svpino)
3:29 PM • Aug 5, 2025
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something big-but-small today.
and then a big upgrade later this week.
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3:51 PM • Aug 5, 2025
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