As OpenAI and Anthropic race ahead in AI, Amazon VP says: We are on path we want to be, we are taking …

Amazon’s senior vice president Peter DeSantis told CNBC that the company hopes to compete with frontier AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic ‘in the coming year’, acknowledging that AI models of Amazon have not yet reached the very forefront of the most demanding workloads. “We’ve been taking a very deliberate approach to get our foundations right, our data, our architecture, our infrastructure. And you know, we’re on a path that we want to be on,” he said. He further added that Amazon’s AI approach is two-pronged. On one side, Bedrock serves as a marketplace for models from different companies, offering AWS customers access to a range of AI tools. On the other hand, Amazon has developed Nova2, its latest AI model launched in December, which now has about 50,000 customers. DeSantis admitted Nova2 is not yet at the frontier but said the aspiration is to make it one of the most capable models available.