Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Thursday that it will invest $100 million to launch a new program called the Generative AI Innovation Center to help companies accelerate the development of generative AI-based applications.
The new program will connect AWS AI and machine learning (ML) professionals with companies to help them envision, design, and launch new generative AI products, services, and processes, the company said. Manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, etc., added that industries could be targeted.
The program’s team members, consisting of data scientists, engineers, and application architects, will also support companies through free workshops and training, AWS said. Companies also get additional support from his AWS partner network.
The Generative AI Innovation Center also offers AWS products and services such as Amazon CodeWhisperer, Amazon Bedrock, and infrastructure such as Amazon EC2 Inf1 and Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
In addition, customers can use Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy their own models, or use Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart to launch some of today’s most popular FM models, such as Cohere’s Large Language Models and Hugging Face’s BLOOM. The company says it can also deploy some of the
It added that sales enablement software provider Highspot and customer engagement software provider Twilio have already signed up for the program.
The move to launch a program on building generative AI applications is a strategic move not only to reach more enterprise customers, but also to demonstrate a proof of concept.
The Generative AI Innovation Center follows the blueprint of AWS’ Data Lab program. The program is designed to connect enterprise customers with her AWS data specialists to use AWS products and services to solve complex data challenges in concrete ways.
The company made its Data Lab program available in India in January.
