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Morning Edition · Thursday, July 9, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
AI Vendors and Clouds Push Millions in Free Compute Credits to Lock In Startups
Competing offers to individual startups now exceed $3 million in cloud and token credits, with AWS saying it has distributed more than $6 billion to startups since 2020.
AI vendors and cloud providers are giving startups infrastructure credits worth millions of dollars to tie them to a single ecosystem early, as reported by AI industry channels and confirmed in broader coverage. The offers are large and com…
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