Amazon has shaped a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, programs that assist folks automate components of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
In an e-mail to workers seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman mentioned 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 hitch the tech business’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 capable of routinely ebook Ubers, navigate web sites, and full different duties that people would normally do themselves.
Amazon’s AWS unit may be curious about growing enterprise brokers, competing with Salesforce and Microsoft to create AI programs that may automate work-related duties for purchasers.