AWS re:Invent 2023: the biggest news and announcements

Amazon is hosting its annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, taking over the entire strip. The company — which recently made investments in generative AI companies like Anthropic and offers access to large language models like Llama 2 — is expected to announce new partnerships, more generative AI capabilities, and new AI models.  There’s already been […]

Amazon is hosting its annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, taking over the entire strip. The company — which recently made investments in generative AI companies like Anthropic and offers access to large language models like Llama 2 — is expected to announce new partnerships, more generative AI capabilities, and new AI models. 

There’s already been some big AI-focused news from the show, including that the company’s Amazon Transcribe product is now powered by generative AI and that AWS will deploy Nvidia’s powerful GH200 AI chips. Amazon likely has some other notable announcements in the pipeline as it strives to show potential customers that it can compete with AI offerings from other big cloud infrastructure providers like Microsoft and Google.

re:Invent is set to run through December 1st. Here’s our coverage from the show.

Will Knight is a senior writer for WIRED, covering artificial intelligence. He writes the Fast Forward newsletter that explores how advances in Al and other emerging technology are set to change our lives—sign up here. He was previously a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, where he wrote about fundamental