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Amazon’s lofty ambitions across retail, cloud computing and now AI remain in place as it continues to be among the biggest players in e-commerce.
- With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race - TechCrunch
Bedrock is Amazon’s most forceful play yet for the...
- Amazon brings its Rufus AI shopping assistant to more ...
Amazon is extending the availability of its AI-enabled...
- Amazon jumps on nuclear power bandwagon by investing in X ...
Amazon today became the latest Big Tech company to throw its...
- With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race - TechCrunch
Apr 13, 2023 · Bedrock is Amazon’s most forceful play yet for the generative AI market, which could be worth close to $110 billion by 2030, according to estimates from Grand View Research. With Bedrock, AWS...
4 days ago · Amazon is extending the availability of its AI-enabled shopping assistant, Rufus, to more markets in Europe and the Americas. The e-commerce giant has been widely considered to be playing...
- Mobile Internet
- Automation of Knowledge Work
- Internet of Things
- Cloud
- Advanced Robotics
- Autonomous Or near-autonomous Vehicles
“Increasingly inexpensive and capable mobile computing devices and Internet connectivity” Amazon’s Kindle eReader, which launched in 2007, wasn’t the first eReader on the market but with it’s innovative WiFi hardware and Kindle Direct Publishing, the self-publishing platform, it enabled customers to have thousands of books available within seconds ...
“Intelligent software systems that can perform knowledge-work tasks” In 2018 Amazon “reorganised around Artificial Intelligence” (Morgan, 2018). This reorganisation focused other teams and departments at Amazon to utilise AI in their products and services, including warehouse management, recommendations on Amazon Music, Prime Video and on the ecomm...
“Networks of low-cost sensors and actuators for data collection, monitoring, decision making, and process optimisation” The Amazon Dash, an internet-enabled button for making repeat purchases, was Amazon’s move into Internet of Things devices. On sale for less than four years the device fell foul of consumer protection laws in Germany, Amazon’s sec...
“Use of computer hardware and software resources to deliver services of the Internet” Amazon Web Services is a leading (Gartner, 2018) infrastructure-as-a-service provider. Gartner calls out AWS’ “prioritisation of being first to market” along with being the “most mature enterprise-ready provider, with the strongest track record of customer success...
“Increasingly capable robots with enhanced sensors, dexterity, and intelligence; used to automate many tasks” In 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva Systems, a small robotics company for $775 million providing Amazon with mobile robots and the technical expertise to begin automating its warehouses and sorting facilities. (Del Rey, 2019). This automation of ...
“Vehicles that can navigate and operate autonomously or semi autonomously in many situations” Amazon has invested $700 million in Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer and $530 million in Aurora, an autonomous driving startup. “For Amazon, this small investment is a good way to enlarge their bet on the E.V. [electric vehicle] market without hav...
Oct 16, 2024 · Amazon today became the latest Big Tech company to throw its weight behind nuclear power, joining Microsoft and Google, which both previously announced long-term promises to buy nuclear power...
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Jul 1, 2024 · Amazon has replicated an antitrust-avoidance playbook pioneered by Microsoft with its hiring of most of the team behind buzzy AI startup Adept.
