Amazon unveiled its own AI chatbot for businesses on Tuesday named "Q" targeted at businesses.

"Q" will be provided solely to Amazon's AWS cloud computing users and will compete directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT Google's Bard, and Microsoft's copilots, which use OpenAI's technology.

PHOTO | COURTESY Amazon Releases AI Chatbot Called 'Q'

A year after ChatGPT's ability to instantly churn out expert and human-like content, chatbots aimed at businesses have emerged as the major battleground for generative AI.

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Amazon Q, which costs $20 per month per user, will do several activities, such as summarising submitted documents and answering queries about specific data stored on a company's servers.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy mentioned Amazon Q as a more secure version of an AI chatbot with more tightly regulated access to content.

This was done to reassure corporations put off by the technology's proclivity to provide wrong or unsuitable replies, often known as hallucinations.

PHOTO | COURTESY Q

"If a user doesn't have permission to access certain data without Amazon Q, they can't access it using Amazon Q either," Jassy wrote in an X.com post.

AWS CEO Andrew Selipsky stated that cloud clients utilizing Q may also restrict their chatbots to a very limited and predetermined data source.

Selipsky took a veiled shot at Microsoft while discussing the company's latest AI developments.

Microsoft, AWS's main competitor, relies on OpenAI for AI duties, despite an embarrassing boardroom squabble last month that saw CEO Sam Altman sacked and rehired five days later.

According to Selipsky, the upheaval demonstrated that organizations must rely on diverse AI providers.

"You need a genuine choice..."The events of the last ten days have made that abundantly clear," Selipsky remarked at the Las Vegas event.