AWS Unveils AI Productivity Tools<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, AWS unveiled new AI-focused products, including Amazon Quick, a desktop assistant designed to help users complete productivity tasks such as creating presentations and scheduling meetings.<\/p>\n
It also introduced new Amazon Connect applications tailored for industries such as healthcare, hiring, and supply chain management.<\/p>\n
In an Interview<\/a> with Fortune, Garman said the rise of “agentic AI” is driving a major reinvention of software. “We think that there is just such a massive change out there that everything is going to be remade.\u201d<\/p>\n “I don’t think personal productivity has really been remade for the last 30 years,” Garman added, describing Quick as part of AWS’s push into AI-driven tools that can be used even by non-AWS customers.<\/p>\n AWS also announced a partnership with OpenAI, giving customers access to models like GPT and Codex through its cloud infrastructure, expanding options alongside systems from Anthropic and Meta.<\/p>\n “We think there are a handful of them that we can build that will be pretty successful and that customers will like,” Garman said, noting that most AI software innovation will come from outside Amazon.<\/p>\n Amazon Accelerates AI Expansion Across Key Businesses<\/p>\n Amazon expanded its AI efforts across hiring automation, cloud computing performance and infrastructure spending.<\/p>\n Amazon launched Connect Talent<\/a>, an AI hiring tool that automated candidate screening and interviews for high-volume recruitment, with applicants notified when AI was used.<\/p>\n Earlier, AWS also partnered with Cerebras Systems to speed up AI processing by combining chips<\/a> and splitting workloads between input and output systems.<\/p>\n