Amazon Offers New AI Shopping Tool
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Amazon is launching a new AI-powered tool that’s supposed to help you choose which product to buy. Now, when you look at multiple similar items on Amazon’s app or mobile website, it may display a “Help me decide” button that picks one for you based on your browsing activity, searches, shopping history, and preferences.
One of the top tech analysts on Wall Street says other cloud providers are doing better in the generative AI era.
Amazon, which has asserted its dominance in retail and the tech industry with its cloud computing services, has turned heads this year with dramatic workforce changes as it invests billions into artificial intelligence.
In one post, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls “an extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which “acts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks.
Amazon Web Services struggles to find AI solopreneurs and bootstrapped startups, highlighting a blind spot in its customer discovery process.
Amazon is set to counter recent investor concerns about its position in the AI race, analyst Justin Post wrote.