Amazon launches ‘Q’ — a ChatGPT competitor purpose-built for enterprise

by Jeremy

Amazon has launched its personal synthetic intelligence-powered assistant constructed for enterprise, “Amazon Q.”

The AI chatbot can be utilized to have conversations, remedy issues, generate content material, acquire insights and join with an organization’s info repositories, code, knowledge and enterprise methods, Amazon Net Providers stated in a Nov. 28 announcement.

Q is a part of Amazon’s broader technique to combine generative AI throughout its product ecosystem on each shopper and personal sector fronts an hopes the software will show helpful to workers.

“Amazon Q supplies fast, related info and recommendation to workers to streamline duties, speed up decision-making and problem-solving, and assist spark creativity and innovation at work.”

Workers in HR, authorized, product administration, design, manufacturing and operations will profit from Q, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky stated in a Nov. 28 CNBC interview.

He famous that Q is skilled on 17 years of AWS knowledge.

Dialog tab on Amazon Q. Supply: Amazon Net Providers

AWS’s largest clients embody monetary companies Vanguard and Deloitte together with telecommunication firms Samsung and Verizon and leisure conglomerate Disney — whose workers might leverage the AI chatbot when a extra full model is rolled out.

It’s presently solely provided in preview mode in Oregon and northern Virginia in america.

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Amazon’s Q is unrelated to Q*, an AI venture by ChatGPT creator OpenAI — which was rife with controversy final week when founder and CEO Sam Altman was sacked after which reinstated as CEO.

Amazon has been a giant investor within the AI area, inserting a $4 billion wager on Anthropic — the workforce behind Claude 2 chatbot — throughout a number of investments. Anthropic leverages a lot of its computational energy from AWS.

Two of Amazon’s largest opponents, Google and Meta, launched their very own AI chatbots named Google Bard and LLaMA earlier in 2023, whereas Microsoft has invested about $13 billion into OpenAI.

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