Exclusive: Amazon Has Drawn Thousands To Try Its AI Service Competing With Microsoft, Google
July 27, 2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud division of Amazon, has attracted thousands of customers to try out its AI service, Amazon Bedrock, which competes with Microsoft and Google in the artificial intelligence domain. The company aims to make every organization an AI company and is offering a wide range of AI models through Bedrock to win business, including generative technology for producing new text and images. Amazon’s efforts in the AI space are gaining interest, and it plans to provide access to Amazon Bedrock to all customers very soon, offering a broader range of AI tools than its competitors.
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