Amazon launches ‘Q’ — a ChatGPT competitor purpose-built for business

Amazon has launched its own artificial intelligence-powered assistant built for business, “Amazon Q.”

The AI chatbot can be used to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, gain insights and connect with a company’s information repositories, code, data and enterprise systems, Amazon Web Services

Amazon’s Q is unrelated to Q*, an AI project by ChatGPT creator OpenAI — which was rife with controversy last week when founder and CEO Sam Altman was sacked and then reinstated as CEO.

Amazon has been a big investor in the AI space, placing a $4 billion bet on Anthropic — the team behind Claude 2 chatbot — across several investments. Anthropic leverages much of its computational power from AWS.

Two of Amazon’s largest competitors, Google and Meta, released their own AI chatbots named Google Bard and LLaMA earlier in 2023, while Microsoft has invested about $13 billion into OpenAI.

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