Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at an organization occasion in New York on Feb. 26, 2025.
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Amazon has shaped a brand new group inside its shopper product-development arm that’s targeted on agentic synthetic intelligence, the corporate stated Wednesday.
The workforce can be primarily based in Lab126, the stealthy Silicon Valley-based analysis and growth unit behind the Kindle e-reader, Echo sensible speaker and different standard Amazon units.
A rising variety of corporations are constructing AI brokers as they give the impression of being past textual content and picture turbines. In distinction to AI providers corresponding to chatbots, brokers are able to finishing multistep, complicated actions on a person’s behalf.
The brand new group will assist develop an agentic AI “framework” to be used in its robotics operations, an software also known as “bodily AI.”
These methods allow robots to “hear, perceive and act on pure language instructions, turning warehouse robots into versatile, multi-talented assistants,” Amazon stated.
Amazon’s AI lab launched a internet browser-based agent earlier this 12 months. Its cloud unit has additionally shaped its personal agentic AI group. Amazon’s Alexa+, an AI-infused replace of its voice assistant launched in March, can be anticipated to have some agentic capabilities.
