Justin Tung, Senior Principal Analyst at Gartner, agrees that the Amazon move will offer its customers a genuinely new option. “While organizations seeking the most advanced, high-performance models may not view Nova 2 as the leading option, it provides a compelling balance of speed, accuracy and, importantly, cost. For many enterprise use cases, the ideal model is not necessarily the most powerful, but the one that delivers reliable performance at a more accessible price point – and in that regard, Nova 2 remains a strong and practical choice.”
Quantum computing on the horizon
Perhaps the more interesting move is the inclusion of the nascent quantum computing development within the new organization. Eric Kessler, general manager of AWS Braket, speaking at re:Invent, this year, said that Amazon estimates that fault-tolerant quantum computing will be possible for scientific use cases by the end of the decade.
“Putting quantum computing in this new division makes sense because Amazon views AI and quantum computing as having a mutually beneficial relationship. That is, AI will be used to advance quantum computer design, and quantum computing will be used to advance AI, by acting as data samplers to generate high-quality training data,” Jackson said.
