Amazon’s answer to ChatGPT seen as incomplete

Wireless networking components on display on the Amazon Web Services Inc stand at the Hannover Messe industrial technology fair in Hannover, Germany. Amazon’s announcement that it had entered the generative AI race was uncharacteristically vague, according to longtime employees and customers. — Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc’s cloud customers are clamoring to get their hands on the ChatGPT-style technology the company unveiled six weeks ago. But instead of being allowed to test it, many are being told to sit tight, prompting concerns the artificial intelligence tool isn’t fully baked.

Amazon’s announcement that it had entered the generative AI race was uncharacteristically vague, according to longtime employees and customers. Amazon Web Services product launches typically include glowing testimonials from three to five customers, these people said. This time the company cited just one: Coda, a document-editing startup.