Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled several significant artificial intelligence developments at its re:Invent 2024 conference. The announcements focus on new hardware, software, and services designed to enhance AI capabilities for business customers. The company introduced the general availability of its Trainium2 chips, which AWS claims are four times faster than their predecessors. These chips …
Amazon has announced an additional $4 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion while maintaining a minority stake. The investment marks Amazon’s largest outside investment in its three-decade history. As part of the agreement, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will become Anthropic’s primary cloud and training partner. Anthropic will …
Amazon’s attempt to upgrade Alexa with generative AI capabilities has encountered significant challenges, according to internal documents obtained by Jason Del Rey at Fortune. The new version, codenamed Banyan, suffers from response delays and low customer satisfaction scores in testing. Documents reveal that the AI assistant’s latency issues could frustrate users, and nearly 10% of …
Amazon is investing heavily in developing its own AI chips through Annapurna Labs, an Austin-based startup it acquired in 2015 for $350 million. The company aims to boost efficiency in its data centers and reduce costs for both itself and its AWS customers, the Financial Times reports. According to Dave Brown, vice-president of compute and …
Anthropic is collaborating with Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to its Claude AI models, according to the company. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, the partnership will allow Claude to be used within Palantir’s defense-accredited platform, Impact Level 6 (IL6), which handles data critical to national security. …
Amazon has been working to upgrade its Alexa voice assistant with artificial intelligence to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but the project has faced repeated delays. According to Austin Carr and Matt Day reporting for Bloomberg, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tested a prototype in summer 2023 and was initially optimistic, but the planned launch was pushed …
Amazon has introduced a generative AI tool that enables brands to create audio ads in addition to images and videos, expanding its advertising offerings at the Amazon unBoxed conference. As AdWeek reports, this new feature allows advertisers to generate ads using minimal product information and is part of a broader suite of tools aimed at …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is investing over $500 million in nuclear power through three projects across Virginia and Washington state, aimed at meeting the increasing clean energy demands for its expanding services in generative AI. As CNBC reports, this initiative aligns with Amazon’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions. AWS has partnered with Dominion Energy …
Amazon is developing AI-powered shopping assistants. They are designed to help customers buy products and make personalized recommendations, reports Will Knight for Wired. The company is training large language models with its own data to give the AI agents the knowledge they need about products and customer preferences. The first steps toward AI agents are …
Amazon has unveiled an AI-powered video generator – but only for advertisers. This was reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch. The tool can create short commercials from a single product image and is currently in beta for select US advertisers. The generated videos are six to nine seconds long and have a resolution of 720p. …