Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman promises 'needle-moving' AI updates

In late November, AWS invested additional $4 bn in Anthropic—doubling its investment in the AI startup to $8 bn

- Belle Lin

Matt Garman, the new chief executive of Amazon's cloud unit, says artificial intelligence is a race without a finish line. "It is such a foundational technology," Garman said. "It's just a thing that's going to happen forever."

Garman, who became CEO of Amazon Web Services in June, is about to headline his first re:Invent, the company's annual conference, which regularly attracts tens of thousands of attendees to Las Vegas. Each year, it is tradition for the world's largest cloud provider to invite its chief executive to rattle off a slew of product updates in a keynote address. Garman, on Tuesday, will be sharing new features and products in areas including AI and computing, which he described as "real, needle-moving changes."