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No part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGI


“There's scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s VP of Artificial General Intelligence, today at Mobile

“There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s VP of Artificial General Intelligence, today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Thus, Amazon is relaxed about deploying DeepSeek and other models on AWS: “We’re a company that believes in choice… We are open to adopting whatever trends and technologies are good from a customer perspective,” said Sharma. Sharma admitted this issue was “outside” of his “zone of expertise” and the consequences are “very hard for me to predict…” But he did, somewhat diplomatically, hint that some companies might adjust their strategy: “What I will say is that it is the case that technical innovation responds to incentives,” he said.

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