Amazon is coming out with its own AI chatbot Q. The chatbot is available almost a year after everyone was introduced to the AI chatbot ChatGPT. There are a lot of competing chatbots in the market now, but so far none of them were the product of Amazon.
Amazon Q is Amazon’s answer to the many AI chatbots available on the market. Attracting users to the service at such a late stage is only possible with a differentiating factor, and Amazon decided to capitalize on this by focusing on businesses.
“We think Q has the potential to become a work companion for millions of people in their work lives,” said Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS.
Silence broken
For a long time, the company was silent regarding an AI chatbot. An investment in AI developer Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, still made nothing concrete about what Amazon was trying to come up with. The silence is now being broken with the introduction of Q.
According to Selipsky, a solution to the security and privacy concerns that keep companies from deploying the technology has been sought in the meantime. The demand from AWS users for an AI chatbot in the service was there, according to the CEO.
This means every user gets access to a chatbot which has the same limitations in the service as they have in the cloud. Thus, files within the cloud service that have not been made accessible to an employee cannot be accessed by that employee through the chatbot either. Q additionally does not rely on a single model. It is a product of Amazon Bedrock, which manages several foundation models.
Further details
Like many other AI tools, Amazon provides the ability to link data that was not already in the cloud to the model. To use Q, you pay $20 per user per month.
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