Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the retail giant's cloud-computing business.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.
  • Amazon announced on Thursday its generative AI toolkit called "Bedrock."
  • Amazon Web Services customers can use Bedrock to build chatbots, generate text, and create images.
  • The announcement comes after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company will "invest heavily" in AI.

Amazon announced on Thursday it's releasing an AI platform for businesses called Amazon Bedrock, which will compete with enterprise offerings from OpenAI and others in the generative AI space.