AWS re:Invent 2023: CEO Keynote with Adam Selipsky
Adam Selipsky · Nov 28, 2023 · 2h 15m · Las Vegas, Nevada
Summary
Selipsky's keynote was AWS's first big answer to the generative AI wave: a three-layer stack of custom chips and NVIDIA GPUs, Bedrock for models, and applications, capped by Amazon Q, a work assistant. Anthropic's Dario Amodei and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang joined on stage, alongside new storage and chip launches.
Key themes: AI infrastructure, Models, Assistants · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 13:45
Amazon S3 Express One Zone launched: single-digit millisecond object storage, up to 10x faster than S3 Standard
- 17:49
Graviton4 was announced with 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3
- 24:49
AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership, with Jensen Huang on stage for new GPU infrastructure
- 38:08
Trainium2 was announced for training foundation models, powering EC2 UltraClusters of up to 65 exaflops
- 47:45
Anthropic named AWS its primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, Dario Amodei said on stage
- 1:02:40
Agents for Amazon Bedrock became generally available, and Guardrails for Bedrock was announced
- 1:27:43
Amazon Q was introduced as a generative AI assistant built for work
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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfn9_nTDbM
- Adam SelipskyCEO, Amazon Web Services
Companies named: Anthropic, BMW Group, Nvidia, Pfizer, Salesforce, AWS
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