05/22/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/22/2024 13:29
Anyone interested in using Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for developers and businesses, now has more free tools to help them get up to speed-regardless of whether they have technical experience.
Two new courses-Amazon Q Developer Getting Started and Generative BI with Amazon Q in Quicksight-were announced at the AWS Summit in Los Angeles as part of Amazon's "AI Ready" initiativeto provide free AI skills training to 2 million people globally by 2025. AWS has launched a portfolio of free, self-paced courses on AWS Skill Builder, a digital learning center, to help the current and future workforce take advantage of Amazon Q.
"Q is the world's most capable generative AI assistant," Matt Wood, AWS's vice president of AI products, said at the summit. "It is a catalyst for the transformation within your organization. We've seen massive productivity gains."
Wood explained that Q is the "easy button" for generative AI. It can help users complete a series of tasks, move more quickly, and be more agile. Essentially, it removes the heavy lifting of repetitive day-to-day tasks.
"Q is a powerful way of delivering quick, relevant answers to your business questions," Wood said.
Each of the new free courses takes about an hour to complete. They are part of the Amazon Q learning plan.
In addition to these two courses, two others launched with the release of Amazon Q in April:
There were several other announcements at the LA Summit, including:
Learn more about Trainiumand Inferentia, and Amazon Q. Find out what's happening at AWS Summit Los Angeles.