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. …
Amazon is currently investigating whether the Perplexity AI search engine violates the Amazon Web Services Terms of Service. Perplexity is alleged to crawl parts of sites that are blocked via Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt). Read more about the allegations here.
With the new AWS App Studio, organizations are supposed to be able to build scalable internal applications in minutes-without any programming skills. Using generative AI, App Studio uses natural language descriptions to create applications that can be integrated with internal systems. According to Amazon, the tool handles all aspects of application development, from deployment to …
Amazon is apparently planning a major relaunch of its Alexa service, which has been losing money for years. According to Reuters, the company is planning to equip Alexa with a new AI system that will be offered in two tiers. A premium version could be available for around $5 per month and enable tasks such …
SAP is integrating Amazon’s Bedrock AI development platform into its AI Core platform to facilitate the use of generative AI for enterprises, especially in regulated industries. Bedrock gives SAP customers access to a variety of large language models.
Amazon aims to simplify generative AI development with Bedrock Studio: The new tool is designed to help businesses experiment, share, and build AI-powered applications.
The Amazon Q AI chatbot is now generally available to help businesses with tasks such as knowledge discovery, software development, and data analysis.