At its annual re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced several new artificial intelligence (AI) offerings along with showcasing major customer adoption of its AI and cloud technologies.
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky introduced Amazon Q, a powerful new generative AI assistant customized for enterprise use. Amazon Q can have conversations, solve problems, generate content, and seamlessly access corporate data and systems to deliver insights and enable actions.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined Selipsky on stage and discussed Nvidia’s collaboration with AWS to build an AI supercomputer leveraging Nvidia’s new Grace Hopper Superchip. This underscores AWS’s early leadership in GPU-accelerated computing for AI workloads.
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI safety startup Anthropic, explained how his company’s Claude assistant is trained on AWS infrastructure. Anthropic relies on AWS for mission-critical workloads across industries like healthcare and finance.
Executives from Pfizer and BMW also presented how they are leveraging AWS AI services. Pfizer achieved major cost savings using generative AI and rolled out an internal AI platform. BMW created a cloud data hub and is using AI for route optimization and Alexa integration.
Selipsky stressed AWS’s commitment to provide free cloud and AI skills training to 31 million people by 2025. The new “AI Ready” initiative specifically aims to ready 2 million for roles requiring AI skills.
Additionally, Delta Air Lines discussed adopting Amazon’s Bedrock platform and generative AI to deliver more conversational customer service interactions.
The slate of announcements and customer wins showcase AWS’s central role in supporting enterprise AI adoption. AWS is aiming to make next-generation AI capabilities accessible while readying workers to leverage them.
