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Annapurna

American  
[an-uh-poor-nuh, -pur-] / ˌæn əˈpʊər nə, -ˈpɜr- /
Or Anapurna

noun

  1. Hinduism. Devi.

  2. a mountain in northern Nepal, in the Himalayas. 26,503 feet (8,078 meters).


Annapurna British  
/ ˌænəˈpʊənə /

noun

  1. a massif of the Himalayas, in Nepal. Highest peak: 8078 m (26 502 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Our job is to push the speed and lower the price,” said Nafea Bshara, co-founder of Annapurna Labs and a vice president and distinguished engineer at AWS.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

AI development requires hundreds of thousands of chips operating simultaneously for weeks, according to Annapurna head of engineering Mark Carroll.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Above, Nima at the Mount Annapurna base camp in March.

From NewsForKids.net • Oct. 24, 2024

That growth has been noticed overseas - 24 Bit Games was bought by Californian game publisher, Annapurna Interactive, in November.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

In 1984, during an expedition to Nepal’s Annapurna massif, he’d picked up a gastrointestinal parasite, Entamoeba histolytica, which he was unable to entirely purge from his body over the years that followed.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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