Amazon recently announced a $110 million investment in AI research to support the development of its own designed Trainium chips. This move aims to reduce Amazon's reliance on Nvidia and promote technological advancements in its cloud computing platform AWS. Note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjourney. Trainium is a machine learning chip tailored for deep learning training and inference tasks. Through this investment, Amazon hopes to encourage academic research.

Recently, Amazon announced a significant investment of $110 million for artificial intelligence (AI) research aimed at reducing reliance on Nvidia and advancing the development of its own chips. The funding will support generative AI research at universities under the project name 'Build on Trainium.' The project will provide researchers with the opportunity to use Trainium chips to develop new AI architectures, machine learning libraries, and solutions for large-scale distributed AWS Train.

Recently, reports have emerged that Amazon's plans to revamp its smart voice assistant, Alexa, have been delayed yet again, with the new launch date pushed to 2025. According to Bloomberg, insiders familiar with the matter stated that Alexa's AI team was informed that the new version, originally set to launch this year, has now been forced to delay. As early as September last year, Amazon announced plans for a major overhaul of Alexa, which will be equipped with intelligence similar to ChatGPT, enabling it to provide more natural and engaging interactions.

Recently, reports have surfaced that Amazon is considering a new investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, marking the first funding injection since the $4 billion deal struck with the company last year. According to The Information, Amazon is negotiating with Anthropic, planning to invest billions of dollars. The structure of this investment will be similar to the last one, but with a new condition: Amazon wants Anthropic to use its developed silicon chips and integrate with Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of the 'Generative AI Partner Innovation Alliance' (GenAI Partner Innovation Alliance) aimed at expanding the reach of its Generative AI Innovation Center program (GenAIIC) through system integrators (SIs) and consulting firms. Launched in June 2023, this program is designed to connect customers with AWS's artificial intelligence and machine learning scientists as well as strategic experts to collaboratively envision, identify, and develop generative solutions.

Amazon's Prime Video is rolling out a new feature called 'X-Ray Recaps', a tool that utilizes generative AI technology designed to help users quickly recap the shows they are watching. According to information released by Amazon on its blog, X-Ray Recaps can generate text summaries that include entire seasons, individual episodes, and episode segments, allowing users to grasp key plot points without having to watch from the beginning. This new feature will be accessible via the show's detail page or while watching the show.

According to Bloomberg, Amazon's voice assistant Alexa was originally scheduled for a major AI overhaul by the end of this year, but it now appears to be delayed until 2025. The upgrade is intended to make Alexa smarter and more powerful, with improved conversational abilities and the capability to handle new tasks. The report also details issues encountered during testing the AI-enhanced version of Alexa. For instance, beta users reported that the AI sometimes provided lengthy, convoluted answers that were not entirely relevant to the original query.

In a recent third quarter earnings call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company is making significant improvements to its smart assistant Alexa. He stated that the future Alexa will be a more 'intelligent' assistant that not only answers questions and summarizes information but can also take action on behalf of users. Jassy pointed out that the next generation of smart assistants and generative AI applications will possess stronger capabilities to perform various tasks, rather than just providing information.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today in a blog post the launch of an AI assistant named Amazon Q Developer, designed to help developers improve efficiency when writing code. This assistant can be directly integrated into developers' IDEs (Integrated Development Environments), such as Visual Studio Code and JetBrains. Developers can easily highlight text to access new feature options from Q Developer.

Recently, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Databricks' partnership has attracted widespread attention as they collaborate in the field of generative artificial intelligence, aimed at enhancing AWS's competitiveness. This cooperation not only injects new momentum into Amazon's cloud services but also demonstrates their commitment to the application of AI technologies. According to data from Ark Invest, it is expected that by 2030, the proportion of disruptive innovation-related stocks in the global market will rise from 16% to 60%. In the current inflationary environment.

Recently, Amazon introduced a new AI feature in its online shopping experience - AI Shopping Guides. This new functionality aims to streamline the product research process, utilizing generative AI models to provide a personalized shopping assistant that helps users easily find their desired products. Currently, this feature is only available on the Amazon website and mobile app in the U.S., supporting over 100 product categories. Using the AI Shopping Guides is very simple. You just need to...

Recently, Amazon's $4 billion investment plan with AI startup Anthropic has finally been approved by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). This decision has brought relief to many, as the CMA concluded that the transaction did not significantly impact market competition and therefore did not require further investigation. According to the CMA's report, Anthropic's revenue in the UK is below the threshold for merger scrutiny, and its market share is not significant enough to warrant additional attention.

In the latest launch of the EU's artificial intelligence initiative, the tech community has sparked a massive wave of response. Over 100 companies have signed the 'EU AI Agreement', becoming pioneers of this emerging initiative. The agreement aims to encourage companies to voluntarily adhere to a series of principles before the new AI regulations are formally implemented, laying a solid foundation for the future development of artificial intelligence. This agreement has attracted participation from numerous tech giants, including leaders in the AI field such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.