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Central gasped The coverage is relentless Amnesty International In the hype of recent years, one of the world’s largest technology companies – Amazon – has been noticeably absent.
Matt Jarman, CEO Amazon Web Servicesis looking to change that. At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, Garman announced a set of groundbreaking AI models, as well as a tool designed to let AWS customers build their own models. This tool, Nova Forge, allows companies to engage in what is known as custom pre-training – adding their data in the process of building a basic model – which can allow for significantly more customized models that fit a particular company’s needs. It’s definitely not exactly sex appeal Sora 2 Advertisement But that’s not Jarman’s goal: He’s less interested in mass consumer use of AI and more interested in enterprise solutions that will integrate AI into all of AWS’ offerings — and have a material impact on the company’s bottom line.
For this week’s episode of The big interviewI caught up with Garman after AWS re:Invent to talk about what the company announced, whether he feels behind in the AI race, how he thinks about managing huge teams (and managing internal dissent), and why he’s not convinced that AI is (or should be) the greatest job thief of our time. Here is our conversation.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Katie Drummond: Matt Jarman, welcome to the big interview.
Matt Jarman: Thank you. Thanks for having me.
We always start these conversations with some really quick questions, like a warm-up. Are you ready?
Help yourself. Fire away.
If AWS had a mascot, what would it be?
Sometimes we have a big S3 bucket running around, so we’ll call it that.
Sorry, what is an S3 bucket?
The S3 Bucket is like the thing that you store your S3 objects in, but we actually have a big foam bucket walking around that actually looks like a paint bucket.
So you have a mascot.
Well, S3 has a bucket, and it has a mascot. It’s probably the closest we have, and I love that.
What is the most expensive mistake you have ever made?
Personally or professionally? This is a good question. Personally, the most expensive mistake I’ve ever made was playing basketball too long and I tore my Achilles tendon. This cost me about nine months of being able to walk. Maybe I should have known that in my 30s I was too old to play basketball. I lost a little time there.