Amazon unveiled Q, a new chatbot that users may use at work, on Tuesday.
The product, which was shown at the Reinvent conference of Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas, is the latest attempt by Amazon to take on Google and Microsoft in the productivity software market. It was introduced a year ago by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI with its ChatGPT chatbot, which popularised generative artificial intelligence—a technology that creates text that resembles human writing in response to a few lines of human input.
The James Bond movie character Q is the name of a preview version of Q that is now accessible, with several of its features being offered at no cost. Businesses will have to pay $20 per person each month for a tier once the preview period finishes. It will cost $25 per person per month for a version with extra capabilities for developers and IT staff. Business users can pay $30 per person per month for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Duet AI for Google Workspace.
In the beginning, Q can assist users in debugging and comprehending the possibilities of AWS. Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS, stated onstage at Reinvent that people will be able to converse with it in text-editing programmes for software developers and communication platforms like Slack from Salesforce. It will also be visible in the online Management Console of AWS. To support its chat responses, Q is able to supply document citations.
Developers will have less work to do because the tool may automatically make modifications to the source code, according to Selipsky. He stated that the service will be able to establish connections with over 40 corporate platforms. Consequently, Q allows users to talk about data that is kept in Dropbox, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Zendesk, and AWS’ S3 data storage service. As users communicate with Q, they will also be able to submit documents and ask inquiries about them.
The vice president and practise leader of the technology industry research firm Futurum Group, Steven Dickens, commented that “AWS Q will be a game changer for AWS users who have a profusion of service alternatives, occasionally hard to traverse.” “In the next months, I anticipate that Q will be extensively embraced by cloud administrators and developers alike, as AWS has avoided the temptation to create an AI assistant for every service in its portfolio.”
Throughout the years, Amazon has launched a few end-user applications. Email, encrypted messaging, video calling, supply chain management, customer support, and marketing outreach are all supported by tools. AWS’s revenue is primarily derived from core computing and storage services, with no viral hits to date.
Source (CNBC)
