Seattle: the cloud and enterprise AI capital
Seattle is where most of the world’s AI actually runs. Amazon and AWS sit at the heart of the cloud infrastructure behind modern AI workloads, Microsoft and the Redmond campus drive the Copilot and Azure AI stack, and the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) produces some of the most interesting open research and open models outside SF. Around the hyperscalers, a deep ecosystem of enterprise SaaS, logistics and commerce — Expedia, Zillow, Redfin, Tableau, Smartsheet — leans on the same cloud-first AI patterns.
Seattle teams think at cloud scale by default. Cost, reliability and observability are table stakes, not afterthoughts.
Known companies and institutions
- Amazon, AWS and Microsoft driving global cloud and enterprise AI adoption
- Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the University of Washington for research
- Expedia, Zillow, Tableau, Smartsheet and a broad enterprise SaaS ecosystem
Relevant use cases for Seattle
- Production LLM features on AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI with strict cost control
- Search, recommendation and copilot features for marketplaces and commerce
- Internal AI tooling for logistics, supply chain and fulfillment operations
- Evals, observability and governance for cloud-first teams shipping at enterprise scale
Talking about a project
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