Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.

Amazon announced a new slate of artificial intelligence platforms, known as foundation models, at its annual AWS conference, allowing for text, image and video generation among other things.

Matt Garman, AWS CEO, announces the new AI tool for migrating .NET applications to Linux at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. (GeekWire Photo / Todd

AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q

Amazon.com's cloud unit on Tuesday showed new data center servers packed with its own AI chips that will challenge Nvidia, with Apple coming aboard as a customer to use them. The new servers, based on 64 of Amazon Web Services' Trainium2 chips,

Both AWS and Nvidia are rushing to get their flagship AI offerings to market amid booming demand, though Nvidia shipments have been limited by supply chain constraints.

The company’s megacluster of chips for artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic will be among the world’s largest, it said, and its new giant server will lower the cost of AI as it seeks to build an alternative to Nvidia.

Amazon is rolling out four Nova models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Each have their own capabilities and sizes. Amazon also introduced a new image generation model, called Nova Canvas, and a video-generation model, Nova Reel.

AI startup Anthropic will collaborate with Amazon Web Services and put the supercomputer to work with its AI technology.

Software application development code assistants in the decade before now worked as what we could call smart autocomplete tools.

Amazon has released a family of Nova AI models that can process images, videos, and texts. It can also generate videos and images.