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Amazon Web Services launches startup accelerator for generative AI companies

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(GeekWire File Photo) The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. AWS does not take equity from participating companies. ” It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits. .” ” It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits.

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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office

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LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. ” Before helping launch Fixie, Welsh was an engineering leader at Apple, Google, Xnor.ai, and OctoML.

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Ex-Amazon and Airbnb engineers raise $1.25M for enterprise AI agent developer Cimba.ai

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million pre-seed investment to accelerate development of its software that lets companies develop customizable AI agents to generate insights and actions based on internal data. by using natural language and receive an answer backed by company information.” CEO Chad Sanderson and former LinkedIn engineer Chris Riccomini.

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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

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Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. Fresen was a principal software engineer working on the S3 storage service.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. Data engineers also need communication skills to work across departments and to understand what business leaders want to gain from the company’s large datasets.

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Fugue’s Next-Generation Cloud Security Posture Management Product Now Available in AWS Marketplace

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Fugue, the company putting engineers in command of cloud security, today announced the availability of its SaaS product in AWS Marketplace, further simplifying the process for Amazon Web Services customers […].

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AMD takes hybrid approach to engineering the cloud’s future

CIO Business Intelligence

As a chipmaker, AMD is a vital supplier for the public cloud’s compute engine, and among Ranjan’s key remits is to support the engineering of semiconductors that power the cloud. But as a consumer, Ranjan, like all CIOs, must decide where best to place his company’s workload bets. But that is changing.