{"id":274936,"date":"2026-06-17T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-chief-hope-to-catch-openai-anthropic-in-the-coming-year\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:20:16","slug":"amazon-ai-chief-hope-to-catch-openai-anthropic-in-the-coming-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-chief-hope-to-catch-openai-anthropic-in-the-coming-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon AI chief: Hope to catch OpenAI, Anthropic in the &#8216;coming year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-frontier-openai-anthropic.html\">Amazon AI chief: Hope to catch OpenAI, Anthropic in the &#8216;coming year&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-frontier-openai-anthropic.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-frontier-openai-anthropic.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 13:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"jsx-858675976\">\n<li class=\"jsx-858675976\">Amazon has been looking to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier AI with its Nova models. <\/li>\n<li class=\"jsx-858675976\">AI chief Peter DeSantis said he hopes Amazon is in the conversation about leading models &#8220;in the coming year.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"jsx-858675976\">Amazon is looking to build on its AI strategy, which includes the development of custom chips. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">Amazon&#8217;s top artificial intelligence executive told CNBC on Wednesday that he hopes the company will be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier models in the &#8220;coming year&#8221; after falling behind the two leading labs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a fair narrative that our models haven&#8217;t been at the very frontier for the very largest, most demanding workloads,&#8221; Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon who heads up the company&#8217;s semiconductor, AI and quantum efforts, told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">The &#8220;frontier&#8221; refers to the most advanced AI models. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been taking a very deliberate approach to get our foundations right, our data, our architecture, our infrastructure. And you know, we&#8217;re on a path that we want to be on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">The aspiration underscores the effort Amazon is putting into its model development as it looks to reassure investors that it is a key player in the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">Amazon&#8217;s approach to AI models has been two-pronged. On the one hand, it has a product called Bedrock, which is a sort of marketplace for models from different companies that its cloud computing customers can access. On the other hand, Amazon released Nova2, its latest AI model, in December in a bid to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got about 50,000 customers for Nova2, so we&#8217;re pretty excited about it,&#8221; DeSantis said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">&#8220;Our aspiration is to have a model that people think about as one of the very most capable intelligent models out there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure we&#8217;re there yet with Nova2, but that&#8217;s our aspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">Amazon&#8217;s AI strategy also revolves around its semiconductors under the Trainium and Graviton brands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">The tech giant has been designing its own custom chips for several&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-frontier-openai-anthropic.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon AI chief: Hope to catch OpenAI, Anthropic in the &#8216;coming year&#8217; https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2026\/06\/17\/amazon-ai-frontier-openai-anthropic.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108299063-1777468291796-gettyimages-2267404607-avdmar26lot4a.jpeg?v=1781652733","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-274936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274939,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274936\/revisions\/274939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}