Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new division to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. The company committed $1 billion to the initiative. Forward-deployed engineers will work directly with clients to build and implement AI software.
Engineering teams will embed with customers for 45-day periods to shorten project timelines. The National Basketball Association and Ricoh are the first participating clients. Amazon announced the program during a two-day event in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. government lifted export restrictions on AI models from Amazon partner Anthropic. AWS increased prices for specific machine learning GPU instances on July 1. Analysts attribute the price hike to AI computing demand exceeding available supply.