VentureBeat June 26, 2024
The video call connected with a burst of static, like the sudden death of a thousand startups. Here is Matt Wood, VP of AI products at AWS, crammed into what might be a janitor’s closet at the Collision conference in Toronto. I imagine the scene outside Wood’s video prison, as thousands of glassy-eyed developers are probably shuffling past like extras from a Kubrick film, blissfully unaware of the leviathan growing beneath their feet. Wood’s eyes gleam with secrets.
“Machine learning and AI at AWS is a multi-billion dollar business for us by ARR at the moment,” says Wood, casually dropping a figure that would send most unicorn startups into the valuation stratosphere. “We’re very bullish about generative AI in general....