
Amazon has fashioned a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, programs that assist individuals automate elements of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
In an e mail to employees seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman stated agentic AI has the potential to be “the subsequent multi-billion enterprise for AWS.” A longtime AWS government who beforehand led the corporate’s AI and knowledge groups, Swami Sivasubramanian, will reportedly lead the brand new agentic AI group.
Amazon appears to be the newest firm to affix the tech business’s shift towards AI brokers.
Final week, Amazon confirmed off some agentic capabilities that would be coming to Alexa+, an up to date model of the corporate’s client voice assistant. In demoes, Alexa+ was in a position to robotically guide Ubers, navigate web sites, and full different duties that people would often do themselves.
Amazon’s AWS unit might also be concerned with growing enterprise brokers, competing with Salesforce and Microsoft to create AI programs that may automate work-related duties for purchasers.