Amazon brings its AI expertise to AWS customers

Amazon brings its AI expertise to AWS customers

AWS unveiled Amazon Rekognition at the re:Invent conference on November 30, 2016. Amazon Web Services is giving its customers access to the artificial intelligence that’s powered Amazon products and capabilities, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. “A lot of companies don’t realize the heritage Amazon has in the machine learning space,” Jassy said in his keynote address. Indeed, as the cloud wars have heated up and competitors like Azure and Google Cloud Platform try to make a dent in AWS’ dominance, expertise in machine learning has largely been one of Google’s key value propositions. Yet Jassy pointed to multiple ways Amazon has deployed machine learning, such as in its voice-activated assistant Alexa, its fulfillment and logistics capabilities, and its discovery and search…


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