Amazon, AWS, and Google: A New era of Artificial Intelligence: Adam Selipsky’s AI Powerful CEO and the Google GPT Store

As CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud computing platform AWS, Adam Selipsky is one of the most powerful people in computing at a time when the industry is racing to adopt generative artificial intelligence. There’s a warning for anyone trying to comprehend the current state of the technology: Some artificial intelligence companies are overhyped.

Selipsky first came to AWS as a marketing executive in 2005, and then as CEO of Tableau, which was later sold to San Francisco-basedSalesforce. He was hired back to lead AWS in 2021 by Andy Jassy, who had just vacated that position to succeed Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO, and had originally hired Selipsky to his first stint at Amazon.

Google says the new Gemini will now have more attitude—a departure from the more neutral tone that it previously adopted—and will “understand intent and react with personality,” according to Jack Krawczyk, a Google director of product management. That might be influenced by the chatbots that were launched by some smaller AI upstarts, such as Pi, and the various app-specific personas that the custom GPTs now have.

The new bundle is a lot more than a subscription to Openai. It costs $20 a month. The service includes access to the company’s most powerful version of its chatbot and also OpenAI’s new “GPT store”, which offers custom chatbot functions crafted by developers. Extra storage and the ability to interact with chat-ified search is available for customers who pay the same monthly fee.

After OpenAI opened a new era of tech, Google reorganized its labs and started a pile of sometimes conflicting artificial intelligence services. This included the Bard chatbot, workplace helper Duet AI, and a chatbot-style version of search.