Amazon's AWS forms new group focused on agentic AI

By Greg Bensinger

(Reuters) -Amazon.com has formed a caller radical focused connected agentic artificial quality to assistance users and customers automate much of their lives, according to an interior email viewed by Reuters connected Tuesday.

The caller radical volition beryllium led by AWS enforcement Swami Sivasubramanian, the email, from AWS CEO Matt Garman, said. "Agentic AI has the imaginable to beryllium the adjacent multi-billion concern for AWS," Garman wrote. Sivasubramanian, antecedently vice president of AI and data, volition study straight to Garman, according to the email.

Agentic AI is meant to automate tasks for users truthful that they bash not person to punctual the systems to instrumentality actions for them. Amazon touted immoderate of those capabilities past week successful announcing an updated mentation of dependable work Alexa acceptable to beryllium released aboriginal this period to immoderate customers.

"We person the accidental to assistance our customers innovate adjacent faster and unlock much possibilities, and I firmly judge that AI agents are halfway to this adjacent question of innovation," Garman wrote.

A spokesperson for Amazon didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Also connected Tuesday, AWS elder vice president Peter DeSantis announced successful an interior email a bid of further reorganizations wrong AWS, which has for years been Amazon's nett center. Those see moving AI groups Bedrock and SageMaker arsenic good arsenic hardware engineering nether the compute enactment and a caller radical combining lawsuit acquisition and commerce.

DeSantis said the changes volition assistance "accelerate innovation."

Shares of Seattle-based Amazon were down little than 1% to $204.81.

(Reporting by Greg Bensinger; Editing by Leslie Adler and Chizu Nomiyama)