AWS

Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China

Y Combinator

Used as a case study for how a core business can successfully expand into a vastly different, large-scale service.

Personal AI Meetup - Bee, BasedHardware, LangChain LangFriend, Deepgram EmilyAI

Latent Space

Amazon Web Services, mentioned in relation to volume control in AWS services and as a hacker space location.

Michael Seibel - Building Product

Y Combinator

Mentioned as a third-party provider in an example of how a company (Zenefits) structured a discount.

David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit

Y Combinator

Amazon Web Services, mentioned as not existing during Weebly's early server setup phase.

At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang

Y Combinator

Used as a comparison point for machine learning APIs, questioning if they will become foundational cloud services for AI products in the same way AWS is for general cloud services.

John Preskill on Quantum Computing

Y Combinator

Mentioned as an analogy for how quantum computing might be offered as a cloud service, where users interact via a web interface without needing deep physics knowledge.

Production AI Engineering starts with Evals

Latent Space

A cloud platform. Customers often have committed spend with AWS, which would ordinarily suggest using cloud services for models, but the speaker notes that direct OpenAI endpoints are often preferred for convenience and access to newest models.

Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)

Latent Space

Used as an analogy to describe OpenAI's expanding role beyond a model provider to an 'AI Cloud,' offering comprehensive services like storage and compute.

Is AI Making Us Dumber?

ColdFusion

The Future of AI, Bioelectric Medicine, Surviving Modern Dating, and More — The Random Show

Tim Ferriss

Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School

Y Combinator

A cloud provider offering exclusive deals (cloud credits) to companies participating in Startup School.

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434

Lex Fridman

White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue

All-In Podcast

The Non-Verbal Expert: These Behaviors Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Someone

The Knowledge Project Podcast

Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #163

Lex Fridman

Criticized for banning Parler, which Lex saw as an attack on infrastructure for free speech and competition.

E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner

All-In Podcast

Discussed as a massive infrastructure project that began as a 'dog food' project on Amazon Retail's own needs, not a startup.

Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI

Latent Space

Amazon Web Services, mentioned for its revenue and as a benchmark for the scale of AI hyperscaler buildouts.

The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus

Y Combinator

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing platform. Ed McManus advocated for the show's characters to move their infrastructure to AWS for realism.

The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw

Latent Space

Mentioned by the host in the context of backend systems diagrams and cloud diagrams, and by Steve Ruiz as a potential application for tldraw's AI capabilities.

Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161

Lex Fridman

Cloud computing platform by Amazon, whose decision to remove Parler raised concerns about infrastructure providers' power over content.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Full Keynote

Yahoo Finance

NVIDIA's first cloud partner, accelerating services like EMR, SageMaker, and Bedrock, and facilitating the deployment of OpenAI on AWS.

Building for the Enterprise with Aaron Levie (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 12)

Y Combinator

Cloud computing services provider, mentioned as a key enabler of cloud computing.

Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare

All-In Podcast

Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing platform, mentioned in the context of AI code generation risks.

DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s

All-In Podcast

Amazon's cloud computing platform, used as a benchmark for Google Cloud's success.