Amazon Embraces AI, But Navigates Regulatory Minefield
5 months ago

Amazon Embraces AI, But Navigates Regulatory Minefield

Live Mint  

Amazon's Matt Garman discusses the company's AI strategy and the challenges of government regulation. Garman emphasizes the importance of data security and control, and he believes that nuclear energy can be a key part of Amazon's future energy mix. He also acknowledges the challenges of remote work but remains optimistic about the benefits of in-person collaboration.

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Indian-origin Amazon VP who oversaw flagship AI product steps down: Report
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Indian-origin Amazon VP who oversaw flagship AI product steps down: Report

Hindustan Times  

Baskar Sridharan, Amazon Web Services vice president of AI/ML services and data services & infrastructure, is stepping down just after a year of joining the company. Sridharan had joined AWS in May last year after working at Google Cloud and Microsoft for over 20 years Baskar Sridharan, who was in charge of Amazon's top AI products Bedrock and Sagemaker, is …

Amazon's AWS forms new group focused on agentic AI
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Amazon's AWS forms new group focused on agentic AI

The Hindu  

Amazon.com has formed a new group focused on agentic artificial intelligence, according to an internal email viewed by Reuters on Tuesday. The new group will be led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, the email, from AWS CEO Matt Garman, said. "Agentic AI has the potential to be the next multi-billion business for AWS," Garman wrote. "We have the opportunity to …

A Google GenAI expert weighs in on why companies are clamouring for AI agents
2 months, 1 week ago

A Google GenAI expert weighs in on why companies are clamouring for AI agents

Live Mint  

Google, doubling down on artificial intelligence to fuel revenue growth, is witnessing increased enterprise interest in agentic workflows, according to Oliver Parker, vice president of global Generative AI go-to-market at Google Cloud. Read this | AI and GenAI are transforming robotics: ABB robotics global head Google’s newly launched AgentSpace platform enables businesses to create AI-powered workflows that integrate seamlessly into …

Amazon's AWS to invest $11 billion in Georgia to boost AI infrastructure development
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Amazon's AWS to invest $11 billion in Georgia to boost AI infrastructure development

The Hindu  

Amazon.com said on Tuesday that its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, plans to invest about $11 billion to expand its infrastructure in Georgia to support cloud computing and AI technologies. Big Tech companies are pouring billions into artificial intelligence, highlighting the growing need for robust data centers and advanced infrastructure to support AI-driven innovations and cloud services. This surge …

AI is not “artificial” intelligence, it’s human intelligence
3 months, 1 week ago

AI is not “artificial” intelligence, it’s human intelligence

The Independent  

Ingram Micro is a Business Reporter client Business Reporter: Ingram Micro Film 1 There is a certain amount of fear and anxiety about the emergence of AI and gen AI. Enterprises know they need to competitively embrace AI and its many benefits, including working to streamline operations, enhance productivity and drive revenue through intelligent automation and analysis at scale. Remember, …

Apple planning to use Amazon's latest AI chips to train upcoming Apple Intelligence models
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Apple planning to use Amazon's latest AI chips to train upcoming Apple Intelligence models

Firstpost  

Apple has been using Amazon’s Trainium and Graviton chips to improve search functionality, achieving a 40 per cent boost in performance. Now, the company is evaluating Amazon’s Trainium2 chips for pre-training new AI models AWS’s new servers are set to launch next year, alongside NVIDIA's latest offerings, as both companies race to meet booming AI demands. Image Credit : Reuters …

AWS re:Invent 2024: Amazon unveils Nova, new collection of AI models, to take on OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
3 months, 3 weeks ago

AWS re:Invent 2024: Amazon unveils Nova, new collection of AI models, to take on OpenAI, Google, Microsoft

Firstpost  

Amazon is pitching Nova as a cost-effective and efficient alternative in the AI market. The company claims the models are at least 75 per cent cheaper and faster than similar offerings available through AWS servers Amazon has stepped into the generative AI arena with its boldest move yet, unveiling its own suite of artificial intelligence models. Amazon Nova, a new …

Amazon launches new AI models
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Amazon launches new AI models

The Hindu  

Amazon introduced a range of artificial intelligence foundational models at its flagship annual event Amazon Web Services re: Invent, called Nova, which will allow for text, image and video generation. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the “ Nova” models at the keynote address by AWS CEO Matt Garman on Tuesday morning. “Our new Amazon Nova models are intended to help …

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
55 years, 2 months ago

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

Wired  

Amazon is building one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputers in collaboration with Anthropic, an OpenAI rival that is working to push the frontier of what is possible with artificial intelligence. Amazon says it expects the supercomputer, which will feature hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s latest AI training chip, Trainium 2, to be the largest reported AI machine …

Amazon develops video AI model: Report
4 months ago

Amazon develops video AI model: Report

The Hindu  

E-commerce giant Amazon has developed new generative artificial intelligence that can process images and videos in addition to text, making it less reliant on AI startup Anthropic, The Information reported on Wednesday. The development of the new AI model will help Amazon reduce its reliance on Anthropic's Claude chatbot, a popular offering on Amazon Web Services, the report said, citing …

Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in AI Firm Anthropic
4 months ago

Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in AI Firm Anthropic

Deccan Chronicle  

Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, boosting its stake in one of OpenAI’s chief rivals. That deal included provisions that Anthropic use Amazon Web Services data centers for some of its computing needs, as well as AWS-designed AI chips. The latest investment “establishes AWS as our primary cloud and training partner,” Anthropic said in …

Amazon deepens AI push with additional $4 billion in OpenAI challenger Anthropic: All about the deal
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4 months ago

Amazon deepens AI push with additional $4 billion in OpenAI challenger Anthropic: All about the deal

Live Mint  

Amazon is set to invest a further $4 billion in Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, as major technology firms continue to vie for dominance in the generative AI sector. Under the agreement, Anthropic will designate Amazon Web Services as its principal training partner for developing its foundational AI models—highly advanced systems that power general-purpose AI applications such as …

Amazon.com mulls new multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic: Report
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Amazon.com mulls new multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic: Report

The Hindu  

Amazon is in talks for its second multi-billion dollar investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, the Information reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The cloud services giant announced an investment of $4 billion in the OpenAI rival in September last year, saying its customers would gain early access to Anthropic's technology. Amazon has asked Anthropic, which …

Tech Titans' AI Bets Paying Off: A Record Quarter for Cloud Businesses
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tech Titans' AI Bets Paying Off: A Record Quarter for Cloud Businesses

Live Mint  

Tech giants are seeing the fruits of their massive investments in AI infrastructure, with revenue from cloud businesses at Amazon, Microsoft and Google reaching a total of $62.9 billion last quarter. This figure is up 22.2% from the same period last year and marked at least the fourth straight quarter in which their combined growth rate has increased.

Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

Wired  

Amazon might not have ChatGPT, but it has a roadmap that includes developing even more advanced forms of artificial intelligence—including AI agents that are hell-bent on helping you buy stuff. We’re working on it, prototyping it, and when we think it’s good enough, we’ll release it in whatever form makes sense,” says Trishul Chilimbi, a VP and distinguished scientist at …

Amazon Web Services to expand data centre operations in Telangana; to augment AI offerings
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Amazon Web Services to expand data centre operations in Telangana; to augment AI offerings

The Hindu  

Amazon Web Services to significantly expand their data centre operations in Telangana, augment AI offerings in a big way. Amazon Web Services lays off several hundred tech, sales staff Mr. Babu convinced Amazon senior leadership, led by Kerry Person, vice-president, AWS Data Centre Planning and Delivery, to give a stronger thrust to their data centre operations in Telangana and the …

Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans

LA Times  

Today we are in the middle of a hype cycle in which companies are racing to integrate artificial intelligence tools into products, transforming fields including logistics, manufacturing and healthcare. Sophisticated software functions only through thousands of hours of low-paid, menial labor — workers forced to work like robots in the hopes that AI will become more like a human. In …

Amazon at 30: From online bookseller to two-trillion-dollar tech giant
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Amazon at 30: From online bookseller to two-trillion-dollar tech giant

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Seattle-based firm is now also established as a leading technology company through the Alexa virtual assistant …

Amazon hires execs from Adept AI to push AI efforts
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Amazon hires execs from Adept AI to push AI efforts

The Hindu  

Amazon has hired the co-founders and some of the team from AI startup Adept to ramp up research around artificial intelligence technology. In a memo shared with employees on Friday, Rohit Prasad, a senior vice president and head scientist supervising Amazon’s AGI division, stated that the company had hired Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan along with “a few other …

AWS announces $50 million investment in Generative AI Impact Initiative for PSUs
9 months ago

AWS announces $50 million investment in Generative AI Impact Initiative for PSUs

The Hindu  

Amazon Web Services announced the AWS Public Sector Generative Artificial Intelligence Impact Initiative. The initiative is designed to help public sector organizations – and those that directly support their technology needs – to accelerate innovation in support of critical missions using AWS generative AI services and infrastructure. As part of this initiative, AWS is committing up to $50 million in …

Amazon is working on an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Report
9 months ago

Amazon is working on an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Report

The Hindu  

Amazon is building an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a report by Business Insider has revealed. According to sources and an internal document obtained by the outlet, the project is code-named ‘Metis,’ a possible reference to the Greek Goddess of wisdom, and intends to work as a web browser. The chatbot will be based on Amazon’s most powerful version …

The former Amazon intern now running its profit engine
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The former Amazon intern now running its profit engine

Live Mint  

In the summer of 2005, while at Northwestern University to get his master’s in business, Matt Garman interned at Amazon. “They basically told us there’s no chance that any big bank would ever put a production workload and run it outside of their own facility," Garman said in a 2021 interview at an industry conference. “We often spend as much …

AI pioneer Andrew Ng joins Amazon’s board of directors
11 months, 2 weeks ago

AI pioneer Andrew Ng joins Amazon’s board of directors

The Hindu  

Amazon will be adding AI stalwart and Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng to its board of directors, the e-commerce giant announced on Thursday. He has headed AI teams at Google, where he co-founded the Deep Learning project along with Chief AI Scientist of the company, Jeff Dean. “His academic and private sector work developing machine learning and deep learning algorithms …

Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence, to its board of directors
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence, to its board of directors

Associated Press  

Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors, a move that comes amid intense AI competition among startups and big technology companies. The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, a managing director at the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will replace a seat vacated by Judy McGrath, a former CEO of MTV who told Amazon …

Sundar Pichai shares Google's AI plan to beat Amazon, Microsoft: ‘Incredible opportunity’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sundar Pichai shares Google's AI plan to beat Amazon, Microsoft: ‘Incredible opportunity’

Hindustan Times  

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that in the fourth quarter of 2023 Google Cloud was at a $36 billion annual revenue run rate. At the Google Cloud Next event, Sundar Pichai said that Google Cloud is showing progress owing to deep investments that the company has made in Artificial Intelligence. Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai talked about the …

1000 Indians part of Amazon's “generative AI” driven Just Walk Out project in Fresh stores: Report
11 months, 3 weeks ago

1000 Indians part of Amazon's “generative AI” driven Just Walk Out project in Fresh stores: Report

Hindustan Times  

Amazon is phasing out its Just Walk Out tech from all of its Fresh grocery stores in the US, according to a report in The Information. Amazon had claimed: “The feat is a combination of computer vision, object recognition, advanced sensors, deep machine learning models, and generative AI—a type of artificial intelligence that has recently captured the public’s imagination.” Jon …

Minfy partners with AWS to push AI and cloud transformation in enterprises
1 year ago

Minfy partners with AWS to push AI and cloud transformation in enterprises

The Hindu  

Cloud-native systems integrator Minfy has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to help companies from healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing to transition their workloads to AWS. The company plans to expand in the U.S., Australia, and Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and the Philippines with AWS by solidifying their go-to-market plans, hiring local talent and building relevant customer solutions. …

Tech Giants Seek Partnerships, Talent to Speed Up AI Deployment
1 year ago

Tech Giants Seek Partnerships, Talent to Speed Up AI Deployment

Hindustan Times  

Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. named artificial intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman chief of its consumer AI business and hired most of the staff from his Inflection AI startup. A day before, Bloomberg reported that Alphabet Inc.’s Google was in talks to license its Gemini AI engine to Apple Inc. HT Image The moves suggest that despite pouring billions of dollars …

AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks generative AI, Amazon’s investment in Anthropic and cloud cost cutting
1 year, 3 months ago

AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks generative AI, Amazon’s investment in Anthropic and cloud cost cutting

Associated Press  

Adam Selipsky is shepherding Amazon’s cloud unit at one of the most important moments in tech history. Selipsky, the CEO of the company’s cloud computing unit AWS, has been behind the various generative AI offerings Amazon has rolled out over the past few months as it aims to compete with Microsoft and others in the growing AI arms race. Simultaneously, …

Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT. The tech giant said Tuesday it will launch Q — a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence. The announcement, made in Las Vegas at an annual conference the company hosts for its AWS cloud computing service, represents Amazon’s response to rivals who’ve rolled out chatbots that have captured the …

Amazon launches free AI courses on generative AI to skill people globally
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon launches free AI courses on generative AI to skill people globally

The Hindu  

Amazon launched free AI training courses to provide AI skills to two million people globally by 2025. Under the programme AWS will provide eight new AI and generative AI courses to people, with options ranging from foundational to advanced and courses for business leaders as well as technologists. Amazon will also provide AWS Generative AI scholarships with support from Udacity …

Amazon lays off hundreds in its Alexa division as it pushes resources into AI
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon lays off hundreds in its Alexa division as it pushes resources into AI

The Hindu  

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it pushes more resources into artificial intelligence. In a note to employees on Friday, Daniel Rausch, Amazon’s vice president of Alexa and Fire TV, wrote that the company is eliminating certain roles because it is ditching some initiatives. “As we continue to invent, …

Another round of lay offs: Amazon is cutting down several hundred jobs from Alexa and AI unit
1 year, 4 months ago

Another round of lay offs: Amazon is cutting down several hundred jobs from Alexa and AI unit

India Today  

Amazon is laying off employees again, and this time, the workers from the Alexa and AI teams are receiving pink slips. Rauch reiterated that Amazon is making substantial investments in generative AI, a technology capable of generating new content, such as text, images, and code, from existing data. This investment stems from Amazon's conviction that generative AI holds the potential …

Amazon lays off hundreds in its Alexa division as it plows resources into AI
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon lays off hundreds in its Alexa division as it plows resources into AI

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into artificial intelligence. In a note to employees on Friday, Daniel Rausch, Amazon’s vice president of Alexa and Fire TV, wrote that the company is eliminating certain roles because it is ditching some initiatives. “As we …

Google, Amazon continue to invest billions into AI that is supposedly ‘miles better’ than ChatGPT
1 year, 4 months ago

Google, Amazon continue to invest billions into AI that is supposedly ‘miles better’ than ChatGPT

Firstpost  

Google and Amazon are investing billions into an AI programme called Claude that is supposedly much better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Amazon had invested over $4 billion, whereas Google has invested over $2 billion, and plans to invest more A couple of days ago, Google announced its intention to invest a substantial sum of up to $2 billion in Anthropic, a …

Google set to invest $2 billion in Anthropic- OpenAI's competitor
1 year, 5 months ago

Google set to invest $2 billion in Anthropic- OpenAI's competitor

India TV News  

Google is set to invest $2 billion in the AI startup Anthropic, created by former members of OpenAI, as competition in the AI field intensifies. In September, Amazon also announced plans to invest as much as $4 billion in Anthropic, securing a minority ownership position in the firm, reflecting the fierce competition within the growing generative AI sector dominated by …

Betting Big: Why is Amazon investing $4 billion in Anthropic, a fledgling AI startup
1 year, 6 months ago

Betting Big: Why is Amazon investing $4 billion in Anthropic, a fledgling AI startup

Firstpost  

Amazon is investing heavily in AI and is investing over $4 billion in Anthropic. Last year, Google had invested about $300 million in Anthropic Amazon is making a substantial move into the world of artificial intelligence by investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an AI startup. As part of this partnership, Anthropic will leverage Amazon’s cloud computing platform and …

Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in growing tech battle
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in growing tech battle

The Hindu  

Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the artificial intelligence startup, the two companies said Monday. Amazon and Anthropic said the deal is part of a broader collaboration to develop so-called foundation models, which underpin the generative AI systems that have captured global attention. Under the agreement, Anthropic is making Amazon its …

Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in growing tech battle
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in growing tech battle

Associated Press  

Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the artificial intelligence startup, the two companies said Monday. Amazon and Anthropic said the deal is part of a broader collaboration to develop so-called foundation models, which underpin the generative AI systems that have captured global attention. Under the agreement, Anthropic is making Amazon its …

Amazon commits up to $4 billion in AI startup anthropic for generative AI advancements
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon commits up to $4 billion in AI startup anthropic for generative AI advancements

India TV News  

Amazon has announced a substantial investment of up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup, marking its strategic foray into the burgeoning generative AI market. In this partnership, Anthropic will harness the power of Amazon Web Services, employing AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for the development, training, and deployment of its future foundation models. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy …

Amazon working on a generative AI to help small businesses in India
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon working on a generative AI to help small businesses in India

The Hindu  

Amazon India is developing a generative artificial intelligence tool called SahAI for its business partners to help them with the backend of any particular product. Still in trial stage, this new generative AI is aimed at breaking barriers and helping many new businesses to come on the marketplace, said Amazon during Sambhav summit in New Delhi on Thursday. Amazon signed …

Amazon is rolling out a generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews
1 year, 7 months ago

Amazon is rolling out a generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews

The Hindu  

Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers. The feature, which the company began testing earlier this year, is designed to help shoppers determine at a glance what other customers said about a product before they spend time reading through individual reviews. He also said during an earnings call with investors last week …

Amazon is rolling out a generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews
1 year, 7 months ago

Amazon is rolling out a generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews

Associated Press  

Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers. The feature, which the company began testing earlier this year, is designed to help shoppers determine at a glance what other customers said about a product before they spend time reading through individual reviews. He also said during an earnings call with investors last week …

Amazon has drawn thousands to try its AI service competing with Microsoft, Google
1 year, 8 months ago

Amazon has drawn thousands to try its AI service competing with Microsoft, Google

The Hindu  

Amazon.com’s cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft and Google in a key area of artificial intelligence, an executive told Reuters. Organisations including Sony, Ryanair and Sun Life have tried out Amazon Bedrock, a service the company announced in April that lets businesses create applications with a range of AI models, Vice …

Why generative AI is the secret sauce to accelerating data-driven decision making
1 year, 8 months ago

Why generative AI is the secret sauce to accelerating data-driven decision making

The Independent  

Alteryx is a Business Reporter client. According to recent Alteryx commissioned research into the current state of decision-making across global enterprises, sharing data has clear benefits for making intelligent decisions at scale, but some business leaders are still hesitant. According to Forrester, “Companies across all verticals and maturity levels are finding opportunities to implement AI.” From text-mining to PDF data …

Amazon touts its low-cost cloud computing in generative AI race
1 year, 8 months ago

Amazon touts its low-cost cloud computing in generative AI race

The Hindu  

A key way that Amazon's cloud division aims to set itself apart from rivals perceived to have a leg up on artificial intelligence is by competing on price, an executive said on Tuesday. The AI models behind a viral chatbot like ChatGPT require immense computing power to train and operate, the kinds of costs Amazon Web Services is good at …

‘Google Search, Amazon will end if…,’ Bill Gates on Artificial intelligence
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Google Search, Amazon will end if…,’ Bill Gates on Artificial intelligence

Live Mint  

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has predicted the end of the likes of Google Search and Amazon if artificial intelligence continues to evolve at the current pace. In an AI Forward event in 2023, hosted by Goldman Sachs and SV Angel, the billionaires said if a new AI tool reads human thinking patterns, needs, and feelings, it could change human behaviour. …

Amazon plans to use AI to speed up delivery services
1 year, 10 months ago

Amazon plans to use AI to speed up delivery services

India TV News  

Amazon has announced its plan to prioritize the utilization of artificial intelligence in order to accelerate its delivery services. As per the report of CNBC, Stefano Perego, the Vice President of Customer Fulfillment and Global Operations Services for North America and Europe at Amazon has provided insights into how the company is leveraging artificial intelligence to transform its logistics operations. …

Google moves AI chip engineering team to Google Cloud
1 year, 11 months ago

Google moves AI chip engineering team to Google Cloud

The Hindu  

The team at Google which was engineering artificial intelligence chips has been shifted to the Google Cloud sector, according to a report by tech outlet The Information, citing a Google spokesperson. Microsoft’s Azure held 21% while Google Cloud captured 11%. Google’s shifting of the AI chip engineering team could be a sign of the company focusing on cloud offerings which …

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