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According to Reuters, on 26 November, an internal aide-mémoire was issued in Amazon demanding that engineers give priority to the company's self-studyed AI coding tool, “Kiro”, rather than third-party products. The memorandum states that Amazon will no longer support the new third-party AI development tool, which means that hot tools such as OpenAI 'Codex', Anthropic 'Claude Code' and Creative Cursor will be excluded from the recommendation. It's worth noting that, although Amazo..

On November 6th, AI Search Initiative published a long article stating that it had received a letter this week from an Amazon lawyer requesting it to ban the use of AI helper orders, prices, etc. on the Amazon platform. Perplexity accused the move of "absorbing innovation" and announced that it would defend the user's right to choose. Perplexity believes that "User Agent" should be treated as a personal assistant acting on behalf of the user, unlike reptiles/robots, and suggests that it should satisfy "secretity, personality,..

According to news from 23 October, on Tuesday, local time, The New York Times quoted information from internal Amazon documents that an automated transition would allow companies to sell more without increasing their staff. This was followed today by a campaign in Amazonia on robotics and distribution technology, which gave a more optimistic overall tone. The company shows not only AR smart glasses that can be connected to AI, VR training for drivers, but also 10 robots that are being used or tested. In his post, Amazon highlights Blue Jay, a robot called "Helping employees to reach out..

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon on Tuesday launched "Lens Live," a new AI upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping feature that lets consumers discover new products through visual search, similar to competitors like Google Lens. It's a new AI upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping feature that lets consumers discover new products through visual searches, similar to competitors like Google Lens. The tool will also link up with Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, to provide users with in-depth product analysis, Amazon said. 1AI understands that Lens Live will not replace Amazon...

July 16 - Tech media outlet Windows Central published a blog post today (July 16) reporting that Amazon underestimated the amount of work that would be required to go live with the web-based version of Alexa, and as a result decided to delay going live with the service until after July 31st. 1AI previously reported that Amazon planned to launch a web-based version of its Alexa virtual assistant, known as Alexa.com, in mid-June this year at an event in February. Newly disclosed documents show that Amazon is actively pushing to get the service off the ground internally, but from the details that have come to light so far...

July 11 news, foreign media TechCrunch local time yesterday, citing sources, Amazon AWS will be held in New York City, the United States on July 15 at the AWS Summit released an AI intelligent body / agent market. The marketplace will allow AI startups to offer AI agent services directly to AWS customers, allowing enterprise customers to browse, install, and find various AI intelligences on demand. Similar to other online marketplaces, AI startups can charge users for the use of their intelligences on this platform, and AWS...

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon's Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt has called for less regulation of AI, echoing the stance of executives at several major tech companies who have warned that excessive government intervention in this fast-growing field could limit the company's business expansion, Bloomberg reported on June 11 (Bloomberg). Steve Schmidt said, "Regulation of any kind tends to impede technological progress, so we prefer to leave it up to the industry to explore and establish appropriate standards that will ultimately be driven by customer demand." Top executives from Microsoft, OpenAI, AMD and CoreWeave all testified before the U.S. Congress last month...

June 5 - Amazon has announced that it will form a new Agentic AI (agentic artificial intelligence) team within its mysterious hardware R&D division, Lab126, to begin work on physical AI, CNBC reported today. Specifically, the company plans to develop an Agentic AI framework for robotics, which could begin to impact blue-collar jobs, especially positions in its warehouses. Agentic AI is the latest development in the AI space, going beyond the generative AI that started with the ChatGPT release...

June 5 (Bloomberg) -- E-commerce giant Amazon is embarking on a test of using humanoid robots for its package delivery service, with the company planning to have humanoid robots step out of its Rivian electric delivery vans and deliver packages directly to consumers' doorsteps. Currently, Amazon has put more than 20,000 Rivian electric delivery vans into service for package deliveries, and that number is expected to grow to 100,000 by the end of this decade. Currently, these vehicles are still operated by human drivers and package deliveries are done by humans, but in the future humanoid robots are expected to take over the delivery chain. According to Th...

April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon has unveiled a next-generation generative AI model called Nova Sonic, which is capable of processing speech natively and generating natural and smooth speech. According to Amazon, Nova Sonic performs on par with cutting-edge speech models from OpenAI and Google in benchmarks of key metrics such as speed, speech recognition, and conversation quality. The introduction of Nova Sonic is Amazon's strong response to emerging AI speech models, such as those providing support for the ChatGPT speech model, compared to sub...

April 8, 2011 - Nova Reel, the Amazon AI video model that debuted last December, has been upgraded with a new version, Nova Reel 1.1, capable of generating videos up to two minutes in length. According to a blog post by Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer advocate Elizabeth Fontes, Nova Reel 1.1 is capable of generating "multi-camera" videos with a "consistent style. Users can provide cues of up to 4,000 characters to generate videos of up to two minutes in length, consisting of six seconds of footage. 1...

April 1, 2011 - Amazon on Monday officially launched its general-purpose artificial intelligence agent, Nova Act, which has the ability to manipulate web browsers and autonomously perform simple web tasks. At the same time, Amazon also launched a supporting Nova Act software development kit (SDK), designed to help developers use Nova Act to build intelligent body application prototype. According to 1AI, Nova Act was developed by Amazon's newly established AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) Lab in San Francisco,...

March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Video, Amazon's streaming platform, announced Wednesday local time that it has begun experimenting with AI-assisted dubbing technology in some of its licensed film and television productions. Prime Video said the test will apply AI-assisted dubbing in English and Latin American Spanish, combined with quality control by human localization experts. The first batch of AI-supported dubbing consists of 12 titles, covering films and series that have not previously been dubbed, including the Spanish animated film "El Cid: La Leyenda," the family drama...

Vishal Sharma, Amazon's VP of General Artificial Intelligence, said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that "Amazon has almost no business unit that is not affected by AI." At the same time, he denied claims that open source models can reduce computing requirements. Speaking at the Startups conference, Sharma described how Amazon is relying on its own base models to advance AI deployments in a number of areas, including Amazon Web Services (Amazon's cloud computing arm), warehouse automation robots, and the Alexa intelligent assistant. "We now have about 7...

March 4, 2011 - Amazon is developing an artificial intelligence model with advanced "reasoning" capabilities, Business Insider reported this evening. According to a source directly involved in the project, the new product is scheduled to be released as early as June under the brand name "Nova," a series of generative AI models that Amazon launched late last year. The person said Amazon wants the new models to use a "hybrid reasoning" approach, which can give quick answers, but also more complex thinking in the same system. Reasoning models have become an AI field in recent years...

February 27 news, Amazon yesterday (February 26) released an announcement, announced the launch of a new generation of AI assistant Alexa +, not only can carry out a more natural dialogue, more intelligent understanding of user needs, but also provide personalized services to help users to complete a variety of tasks, covering a variety of areas, such as entertainment, learning, home management, complex topics summary and so on. Alexa+ supports more natural and fluent conversations, and can accurately understand and respond to the user's intent, even if the expression is incomplete or colloquial. Alexa+ is more actionable, based on Amazon...

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon plans to show off an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence technology-based Alexa at an event on Feb. 26, but the upgrade isn't expected to officially launch until at least March 31 or later, according to the Washington Post. One of the reasons for this delay is that the upgraded Alexa had problems giving inaccurate answers in tests. An anonymous Amazon employee revealed that the launch of the upgrade had to be delayed due to these issues. According to the Washington Post, which cited internal documents and sources, the upgraded Alexa was originally scheduled to...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) - Today, Amazon sent out invitations to an artificial intelligence-themed event, which will take place on Feb. 26th. According to Reuters, Amazon plans to unveil its next-generation Alexa generative AI service at the event. Since its launch in 2014, Alexa has become one of the most widely used voice assistants. However, with the proliferation of generative AI offerings such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, Alexa is falling behind. 1AI notes that upgrading Alexa...

January 12, 2025 - Amazon will officially shut down its Prime Try Before You Buy service on January 31, 2025, according to The Information. The service allowed Prime members to try on garments before purchasing and pay for them once they were satisfied. Amazon spokeswoman Maxine Tagay said in a statement that the reason for the closure of the service was that it was only available for a "limited number of items" and that customers were increasingly using Amazon's new...

Amazon AWS today announced the widespread availability of Trn2 instances based on its in-house team-developed AI training chip, Trainium2, with the launch of the Trn2 UltraServer large-scale AI training system, as well as the release of the next generation of the even more advanced 3nm-processed Trainium3 chip. A single Trn2 instance consists of 16 Trainium2 chips interconnected by an ultra-fast, high-bandwidth, low-latency NeuronLink interconnect, providing 20.8 petaflo...

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled a new tool designed to address the problem of hallucinations generated by AI models. 1AI notes that at the re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, AWS introduced Automated Reasoning checks, a tool that verifies the accuracy of a model's response by cross-referencing information provided by customers. AWS claims that this is the "first" and "only" protection against illusions. However, this claim can be...

December 4, 2012 - Amazon today announced a new set of AI base models, branded as "Nova," that will be available through AWS' Amazon Bedrock model library. In a blog post, Amazon said there are now three "comprehension" models to choose from: Amazon Nova Micro: a text model optimized for "speed and cost". Amazon Nova Lite: a "very low-cost" multimodal model that can be fed images, video and text to generate text. Amaz...

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Benoit Dupin, Apple's senior director of machine learning and artificial intelligence, made an unexpected appearance at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference today, CNBC reports. Dupin revealed that Apple is using custom AI chips from Amazon Web Services in many of its cloud services. Apple is also evaluating using Amazon's latest AI chips to pre-train its Apple Intelligence models. Dupin said Apple has been using AWS chips for more than a decade, as ...

According to The Information, Amazon has developed a new set of generative AI models that can process images and videos in addition to text, reducing its reliance on Anthropic. The new model, code-named Olympus, will be able to understand scenes in images and videos and search for specific clips or scenes in videos, such as a kill shot in a basketball game, using simple text prompts, according to the report. It can also use AI models to make the "best coffee" or "raindrops on the ground", as well as simple text prompts...