Amazon unveiled its AI chatbot on Tuesday, Nov. 28, called Q. The chatbot is designed to help businesses with a variety of tasks, such as summarizing documents, and it can be tailored to the business.
“Amazon Q is a powerful new tool that can help businesses improve efficiency and productivity,” Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services said in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent conference. “Q has access to a vast amount of information and can provide employees with detailed, accurate, and nuanced answers to their questions.”
Q is currently available for customers to preview.
The launch of Q came about a year after OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Google opened access to Bard in March. As of early November, Microsoft was boasting its own chatbot as a tool for companies, called Copilot.
While Q may have entered the generative AI race with a chatbot later than its competitors, Amazon’s current commitment to AI research is clear. In September, the company invested $4 billion in Anthropic, a startup founded by former OpenAI employees. Anthropic offers its own chatbot named Claude.
Amazon also announced the development of two new chips, called Graviton4 and the Trainium2. The Trainium2 is designed to help customers train AI systems.
