AWS boss defends dual investments in AI

AWS CEO Matt Garman addressed the apparent conflict of interest arising from Amazon's significant investments in both OpenAI and Anthropic. Garman explained that AWS has a long-standing strategy of partnering with and sometimes competing against its clients, a model honed over years of operation. This approach allows AWS to offer a diverse range of services and models to its customers, even if those partners are direct competitors. He emphasized that AWS is committed to not providing unfair advantages to any single partner, a practice that has become normalized within the cloud computing industry.