The creators of the open‑source inference engine vLLM have launched a venture‑backed startup called Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co‑led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Inferact aims to bring the high‑performance vLLM technology, originally incubated at the UC Berkeley lab of Databricks co‑founder Ion Stoica, to enterprise customers. Early adopters include Amazon’s cloud services and a major shopping app, signaling strong market interest as AI inference moves to the forefront of commercial deployment. Leer más →

Amazon Web Services announced a program that gives qualified early‑stage startups a free year of credits for its AI coding assistant, Kiro Pro+. The offer, unveiled by AWS CEO Matt Garman at the re:Invent conference, targets U.S. startups that have secured funding from pre‑seed to Series B and meet specific geographic criteria. Eligible companies can request credits for up to 100 users, with applications due by the end of the year. Leer más →

Amazon Web Services announced a new generation of its Nova AI models—Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Sonic and Nova 2 Omni—alongside a Nova Forge service that lets enterprises build customized versions of the models. The launch, revealed at the AWS re:Invent keynote, expands Nova’s capabilities across text, image, video and speech tasks and offers a pathway for companies to train the models on proprietary data for a subscription fee. Leer más →

Amazon Web Services unveiled a trio of upgrades to its Bedrock AgentCore platform at the re:Invent conference. The new Policy tool lets developers set natural‑language boundaries for AI agents, including data‑access limits and transaction caps, while integrating with the AgentCore Gateway to enforce those rules. A pre‑built Evaluations suite offers 13 metrics to monitor correctness, safety and tool‑selection accuracy. Finally, AgentCore Memory gives agents a persistent log of user preferences, enabling more personalized interactions. Vice‑president David Richardson emphasized that these layers together aim to make enterprise AI agents safer, more controllable, and more useful over time. Leer más →

A severe outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted a broad swath of internet services on a crisp October morning. The incident stemmed from a DNS resolution problem affecting the DynamoDB API in the US‑East‑1 region, leading to increased error rates and latency across multiple AWS services. Popular platforms such as Venmo, Snapchat, Canva, Fortnite, Alexa, Lyft, Reddit, Disney+, and many others experienced partial or complete outages. AWS identified the issue, applied mitigations, and eventually restored most services, though new EC2 instance launches remained rate‑limited for some time. The outage highlighted the extensive reliance on AWS infrastructure across the digital ecosystem. Leer más →

Slack is testing a major upgrade to Slackbot, turning it from a simple reminder tool into a personalized AI companion. The revamped bot can draft custom plans, search across channels with natural language, pull information from Outlook and Google Calendar, and assist with tasks like organizing product launches or creating social media campaigns. Available to Salesforce employees and in limited pilots, the feature runs on Amazon Web Services’ private cloud, ensuring data never leaves the firewall. Companies may opt out, but individual users cannot, and the rollout is slated for wider release later this year. Leer más →

Amazon Web Services has launched Quick Suite, a comprehensive platform that lets businesses build and use AI agents to access data, automate tasks, and generate insights across internal repositories and third‑party applications. The service connects to internal wikis, AWS services like S3 and Redshift, and more than 1,000 external apps via the MCP standard. Initially available in four AWS regions, Quick Suite includes built‑in connectors for popular data platforms, custom integration options, and a suite of tools for visual analytics, research, workflow automation, and complex multi‑system processes. Leer más →

OpenAI and Nvidia have announced a $100 billion partnership to build massive AI data‑center capacity, a venture that could require power on the scale of ten nuclear reactors. The deal’s circular financing, described by Requisite Capital’s Bryn Talkington, underscores a mutually beneficial relationship. Building one gigawatt of capacity is projected to cost $50‑$60 billion, with a 10‑gigawatt rollout potentially exceeding $500 billion. While the companies have not detailed power sources, similar AI projects are prompting tech giants to secure nuclear energy contracts, and the broader industry faces significant grid and environmental challenges. Leer más →

OpenAI has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its models on the cloud platform. This is the first time OpenAI models will be available on AWS, and they will be offered as a model choice with Amazon AI services Bedrock and SageMaker AI. Leer más →