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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

Where each highlight is said2:15:15
  1. 13:45

    Amazon S3 Express One Zone launched: single-digit millisecond object storage, up to 10x faster than S3 Standard

  2. 17:49

    Graviton4 was announced with 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3

  3. 24:49

    AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership, with Jensen Huang on stage for new GPU infrastructure

  4. 38:08

    Trainium2 was announced for training foundation models, powering EC2 UltraClusters of up to 65 exaflops

  5. 47:45

    Anthropic named AWS its primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads, Dario Amodei said on stage

  6. 1:02:40

    Agents for Amazon Bedrock became generally available, and Guardrails for Bedrock was announced

  7. 1:27:43

    Amazon Q was introduced as a generative AI assistant built for work

Announced

2 available the same day
GAAmazon S3 Express One ZoneLowest-latency S3 storage class
PreviewAWS Graviton4 and R8g instancesNew Arm server chip, first instance R8g
AnnouncedAWS Trainium2Second-generation training chip
GAAgents for Amazon BedrockMulti-step tasks over company systems
PreviewGuardrails for Amazon BedrockSafety policies for generative AI apps
PreviewAmazon QGenerative AI assistant for work
PreviewZero-ETL integrations with RedshiftAurora PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL and DynamoDB

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfn9_nTDbM

On stage

Companies named: Anthropic, BMW Group, Nvidia, Pfizer, Salesforce, AWS

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