Amazon AWS Launches New Division Focused on Agentic AI
Picture this AI that not only talks to you but also books your taxi, reserves a table at your favorite restaurant, and completes daily chores without a single command from you. That future is closer than you think. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making this reality with a new team focused on “agentic AI”, a type of Artificial Intelligence that can take action on its own.
Reuters Reported that Swami Sivasubramanian, who earlier was in charge of AI and Data at AWS, will head this new team. According to AWS CEO Matt Garman, Said.
“Agentic AI has the potential to be the next multi billion business for AWS,”
The emergence of agentic AI could be a great opportunity for AWS commercially. 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,”
In conjunction, Amazon also announced an improved version of its voice assistant, Alexa, with some Agentic AI capabilities, which will be released to a small number of users later this month. Shares of Seattle-based Amazon were down less than 1% to $204.81.
AWS is also pushing forward innovation through other massive transformations such as the merging of some AI teams and establishing a new group focusing on customer experience.
DeSantis said the changes will help “accelerate innovation.”
AWS Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis also announced more organizational changes within AWS in an internal email, including moving AI groups Bedrock and SageMaker under the Compute organization and merging Customer Experience and Commerce into a new group. These changes are aimed at accelerating innovation.
AWS has a plan for agentic AI, and honestly, I find that really interesting. Imagine actually handling tasks on its own without us giving any instructions. That can potentially, if not really change how we live day by day. Surely it blurs the line between reality and technology in what might become a new lifestyle.
Still, I wonder how much control we will have or if our data will even be safe. So, if AWS can manage to strike that balance between useful AI and safe AI, then that is going to be a landmark moment.
