Amazon launched ‘Q’ – a competitor to ChatGPIT purpose-built for business
Amazon has launched its own artificial intelligence assistant, “Amazon Q”, designed for businesses.
An AI chatbot can be used to conduct conversations, solve problems, create content, gain insights and interact with a company's data stores, code, data and enterprise systems, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in a Nov. 28 announcement.
Meet your new #generativeAI assistant, designed for work that can be customized to your business.
With Amazon Q, you can solve problems, generate content, gain insights from data, build faster on #AWS, and keep your data private and secure. ☁️
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— Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) November 28, 2023
Q Creator is part of Amazon's broader strategy to integrate AI into its product ecosystem on both the consumer and private sector fronts, and the company hopes the tool will be handy for employees.
“Amazon Q provides fast, useful information and recommendations to employees, helping to streamline tasks, speed up decision-making and problem-solving, and inspire innovation and creativity in the workplace.”
Employees in HR, legal, product management, design, manufacturing and operations will benefit from Q, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said in a November 28 interview on CNBC.
He pointed out that Q has been trained in AWS data for 17 years.
AWS's biggest customers include financial firms Vanguard and Deloitte, along with telecommunications companies Samsung and Verizon and entertainment conglomerate Disney — whose employees will be able to use the AI chatbot when a more complete version is released.
It is currently only available in preview mode in Oregon and Northern Virginia in the United States.
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Amazon's Q has nothing to do with Q*, the AI project developed by ChatGPT creator OpenAI — which was controversial last week when founder and CEO Sam Altman was fired and returned to the executive role.
Amazon has become a big investor in the AI space, putting $4 billion in several investments in Anthropoc – the team behind the Claude 2 chatbot. Anthroponic uses most of its computing power from AWS.
Two of Amazon's biggest competitors, Google and Meta, have released their own AI chatbots — Google Bard and LMA, respectively — as early as 2023, and Microsoft has invested about $13 billion into OpenAI.
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