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Amazon has launched its own artificial intelligence-powered assistant built for business, \u201cAmazon Q.\u201d <\/p>\n
The AI chatbot can be used to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, gain insights and connect with a company\u2019s information repositories, code, data and enterprise systems, Amazon Web Services said<\/a> in a Nov. 28 announcement.<\/p>\n Meet your new #generativeAI<\/a> assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business. <\/p>\n With Amazon Q, you can solve problems, generate content, get insights from data, build faster on #AWS<\/a>, while helping keep your data private & secure. \u2601\ufe0f<\/p>\n https:\/\/t.co\/ZKKQs9gzEc<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4H0xagrgfI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) November 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Q is part of Amazon\u2019s broader strategy to integrate generative AI across its product ecosystem on both consumer and private sector fronts an hopes the tool will prove handy to employees.<\/p>\n \u201cAmazon Q provides immediate, relevant information and advice to employees to streamline tasks, accelerate decision-making and problem-solving, and help spark creativity and innovation at work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Employees in HR, legal, product management, design, manufacturing and operations will benefit from Q, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said<\/a> in a Nov. 28 CNBC interview.<\/p>\n He noted that Q is trained on 17 years of AWS data.<\/p>\n AWS\u2019s largest customers include financial firms Vanguard and Deloitte along with telecommunication companies Samsung and Verizon and entertainment conglomerate Disney \u2014 whose employees could leverage the AI chatbot when a more complete version is rolled out. <\/p>\n It is currently only offered in preview mode in Oregon and northern Virginia in the United States.<\/p>\n Related: <\/em><\/strong>AI companies commit to safe and transparent AI \u2014 White House <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Amazon\u2019s Q is unrelated to Q*, an AI project by ChatGPT creator OpenAI \u2014 which was rife with controversy last week when founder and CEO Sam Altman was sacked and then reinstated as CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amazon has been a big investor in the AI space, placing a $4 billion bet on Anthropic<\/a> \u2014 the team behind Claude 2 chatbot \u2014 across several investments. Anthropic leverages much of its computational power from AWS.<\/p>\n Two of Amazon\u2019s largest competitors, Google and Meta, released their own AI chatbots named Google Bard<\/a> and LLaMA earlier in 2023,<\/a> while Microsoft has invested about $13 billion into OpenAI.<\/p>\n\n