AWS Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at the company’s re:Invent conference on Tuesday to show off six new text, image, and video generation models that it calls Amazon Nova. This new family of multimodal generative AIs includes Nova Micro, a text-only model built for low-cost, low-latency responses; Nova Lite, a low-cost multimodal … Read more
Amazon’s return-to-office mandate has been controversial among staff, leading a senior executive to defend it at a leaked internal meeting. Amazon is asking all workers to come back to the office five days per week starting January 2. Last month, hundreds of employees anonymously asked senior leadership to overturn the mandate. In an Amazon Web … Read more
One of Amazon’s top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company. Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in … Read more
Intel’s foundry, or contract manufacturing business, has signed up Amazon’s cloud services unit as a customer for making custom artificial intelligence chips, the companies said on Monday, a deal that gives the chip maker a vote of confidence. Intel’s shares rose roughly 8 per cent in extended trading after CEO Pat Gelsinger released a memo … Read more
New Delhi: Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday announced its plans to invest 7.8 billion euros ($8.4 billion ) in its European Sovereign Cloud in Germany through 2040, which reflects the company’s long-term commitment to meeting Europe’s digital sovereignty needs. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud intends to build its first AWS Region in Brandenburg, Germany, … Read more
Amazon.com plans to spend US$9 billion to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore, the latest global technology company to boost investment in Southeast Asia. The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Singapore and helps it meet growing customer demand for cloud … Read more
New Delhi: Information Technology (IT) solutions provider Mphasis on Friday announced a multi-year global strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Gen AI Foundry for financial services. According to the company, the Gen AI Foundry will serve as a dynamic platform for modelling industry use cases and developing proof of concepts … Read more
