Amazon has fashioned a brand new group inside AWS devoted to creating AI brokers, programs that assist individuals automate components of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
In an e-mail to workers seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman stated agentic AI has the potential to be “the following multi-billion enterprise for AWS.” A longtime AWS govt 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 most recent firm to hitch the tech trade’s shift towards AI brokers.
Final week, Amazon confirmed off some agentic capabilities that may be coming to Alexa+, an up to date model of the corporate’s client voice assistant. In demoes, Alexa+ was in a position to routinely e-book Ubers, navigate web sites, and full different duties that people would often do themselves.
Amazon’s AWS unit might also be fascinated by growing enterprise brokers, competing with Salesforce and Microsoft to create AI programs that may automate work-related duties for purchasers.