Amazon is creating a new group concentrating on agentic AI. This aims to help users and customers automate more aspects of their lives.
According to an internal email seen by Reuters, AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian will lead the new group. The email, from AWS CEO Matt Garman, stated, “Agentic AI has the potential to be the next multi-billion business for AWS.” The email also mentioned that Sivasubramanian, formerly vice president of AI and data, will report directly to Garman.
Amazon touted some of those capabilities last week. It announced an updated version of Alexa, its voice service, which is set to be released later this month to some customers. Agentic AI is intended to automate tasks for users. They won’t have to prompt the systems to take actions for them.
Garman wrote, “We have the opportunity to help our customers innovate even faster and unlock more possibilities, and I firmly believe that AI agents are core to this next wave of innovation.”
An Amazon spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
AWS senior vice president Peter DeSantis announced additional reorganizations within AWS in an internal email on Tuesday. These changes include moving AI groups Bedrock and SageMaker, as well as hardware engineering, under the compute organization. They also include a new group combining customer experience and commerce.
DeSantis said the changes will help “accelerate innovation.”
Amazon’s shares were down less than 1% to $204.81.
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