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CEO, Amazon Web Services · Feb 11, 2026 · Statement, AWS CEO calls AI inference a new building block (Acquired podcast)

It's not just ‘summarize what happened,’ but ‘go process my insurance claims,’...

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Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services
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AWS CEO calls AI inference a new building block (Acquired podcast)
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