Amazon Explains How It Will Make AI More Efficient and Affordable [Video]

Watching sessions from last week’s AWS: re-Invent conference, what stood out was Amazon’s insistence that AI, rather than something that stands on its own, is fast becoming part of applications, meaning developers need to focus on things like cost and efficiency.

“My view is generative AI inference is going to be a core building block for every single application,” said Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services. “In fact, I think generative AI actually has the potential to transform every single industry, every single company out there, every single workflow out there, every single user experience out there.”

To that end, Garman announced a slew of upgrades in everything from storage and databases to new computing chips and various AI tools, mostly aimed at reducing cost and complexity.

Generative AI

Unsurprisingly, generative AI tools received the most attention. Garman pushed Bedrock, the company’s AI platform, saying: “Every application is going …