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Big Technology Podcast

Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Matt Wood is the VP of product at Amazon Web Services. He joins Big Technology Podcast live at the AWS Summit in New York City for a conversation about Amazon's plan to compete — and thrive — in the AI race. In this conversation, Wood describes Amazon's plan to support all AI models, not just one, and support builders via its computing infrastructure. Tune in for the most extensive comments from Amazon on its AI strategy to date. Stay tuned for the second half were we discuss ethics, company culture, and Jeff Bezos. You can read Alex's Substack story about the conversation here: Inside Amazon’s Low Key Plan To Dominate AI --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

An Amazon VP working directly on the company's AI initiatives joins us live from Amazon's

0:06.5

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0:50.2

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

0:56.0

And we have a special show for you today. We are live here at Amazon's AWS Summit at the Javitt Center in New York City.

1:03.1

And we are by Matt Wood. He's the VP of Product working on AI products. Inside AWS, we're going to talk about generative AI. Welcome, Matt.

1:11.2

Thank you so much for having me. It's pleasure. So just so folks know, we have a live

1:15.6

audience in front of us. I want to make sure that you all get on the recording. So you're going

1:21.3

to let the people at home hear you, and you got to be loud let's hear it that's pretty good pretty solid

1:32.6

crowd yeah so far so good so man i did my research about where amazon fits in the generative

1:39.8

a i space and i looked at like the chat chippy t model and I looked at chips. Okay, you're dabbling

1:47.0

that in that area, in those areas, but I don't know if you stand out there yet, but where

1:51.8

you are really trying to compete is in this space where companies, the big companies, bring

1:58.7

their models inside AWS and then anybody that wants to build something

2:03.1

with an LLM can build it through your products. So talk to us a little bit about that initiative,

2:09.6

and why did Amazon pick that in particular? Sure. Number one, I would say we're doing a lot more

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