Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s Vice President of AGI, said on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, “There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI.”
According to a TechCrunch report, Sharma announced on the conference stage that Amazon is using its own AI models in different parts of its AWS, including its cloud computing department, robots in the warehouses, and Alexa.
He said Amazon has “like three-quarters of a million robots now, and they are doing everything from picking things to running themselves within the warehouse.”
Alexa remains the most popular “AI product in existence.” Sharma emphasized there’s no part of Amazon that AI hasn’t transformed.
In December 2024, AWS announced Nova, which includes four different AI text-generating models.
These models are tested according to public standards and across different use cases since “there’s not a one-size-fits-all,” Sharma added. Some use cases involve video-generating tasks, while specific tasks suitable for Alexa-like models have to be highly reliable and quick. Sharma said that Alexa-like models “can’t hallucinate ‘unlock the back door.'”
Amazon’s AGI head denied that new AI models can reduce computing power
According to Amazon’s AGI head, reducing computing power in smaller open-source models isn’t a possibility. He said, “As you begin to implement it in different scenarios, you just need more and more intelligence.”
Sharma said Amazon’s Bedrock allows different companies and users to experiment with different AI models according to their needs. This also includes Chinese DeepSeek. Furthermore, the company has partnered with Anthropic, investing $8 billion to build a huge AI compute cluster deploying its Trainium 2 chips.
Recently, Elon Musk released xAI’s Grok 3 through a central data center in Memphis, which contains 200,000 GPUs.Regarding the requirement for such large computing power, Sharma said, “Computing will be a part of the conversation for a very long time to come.”
Amazon is open to including other AI models within AWS
Vishal Sharma shared that Amazon feels no pressure about the emerging open-source models from China and doesn’t mind using them, like DeepSeek, on AWS. He added, “We are open to adopting whatever trends and technologies are good from a customer perspective.”
He said Amazon has been working on the technology for 25 years. “If you look at something like Alexa, there’s something like 20 different AI models that are running at Alexa.”
Moreover, he avoided saying much about the stance of European companies regarding AI in current geopolitical issues with the United States.
He said it’s “very hard for me to predict” and outside of his “zone of expertise.” He added, “What I will say is that technical innovation responds to incentives,” while suggesting that some companies might consider changing their strategies.
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