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Snowflake has signed a five-year, six-billion-dollar deal with Amazon Web Services to secure AI chips, marking one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments in recent memory. It's another signal that the race to lock in compute capacity is intensifying, and that Nvidia's grip on the AI hardware story is facing real pressure from alternative architectures.
On the music generation front, ElevenLabs and Stability AI are both pushing new models into a space that Suno currently dominates. ElevenLabs brings genre-shifting and section-by-section composition with Music v-two, while Stability's open-weights Stable Audio three-point-zero supports tracks up to six minutes long. Whether either can actually unseat Suno remains the honest question.
And ElevenLabs is also behind a separate story worth watching closely — the company has licensed the voice and likeness of the late Stan Lee, adding him to a growing roster of AI-reconstructed celebrities. It raises familiar and unresolved questions about consent, legacy, and who ultimately profits when the dead are given a second voice.
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