As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale.

The first version of AWS Nova was announced last year at the company’s annual tech conference. At the time, the company released four text-generating models and one image-generating model. This year, AWS is giving the models an upgrade and launching an accompanying service.

AWS VP for AgentCore David Richardson told VentureBeat that the policy tool sits between the agent and the tools it calls, rather than being baked into the agent, as fine-tuning often is. The idea is to prevent an agent from violating enterprise rules and redirect it to re-evaluate its reasoning.

Invent conference to assert itself in the AI race that suddenly looks much bigger than OpenAI. Why it matters: Last week's news cycle was dominated by Google staking a claim that it has pulled ahead of OpenAI.

AWS is introducing new capabilities for its AI agent building platform, including memory and evaluation tools.

AWS CEO Matt Garman asserts AI amplifies human skills, not replacing jobs, citing efficiency gains like a codebase rewrite by six people. This comes a

AWS has announced it will be teaming up with Nvidia to develop and build so-called "AI Factories" - hyper-powered facilities bringing together some of the most powerful hardware around to power the next generation of AI.

AWS CEO Matt Garman unveiled a set of new tools at the cloud giant’s annual re:Invent conference, calling them critical to helping companies get value out of AI.