Matt Wood spent nearly 15 years helping build @awscloud AI—including Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. Now, he's back as AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer. @SwamiSivasubram caught up with him to talk tokens, agents, @amazonquick, and the state of AI. See how it went. ⬇️

Customers kept choosing AWS across every layer of the stack in Q2: ▪️We grew 37% YoY on a very large base, our fastest growth in 18 quarters. ▪️Bedrock customer spend exceeded all prior quarters combined. ▪️AgentCore revenue grew more than 4x QoQ. ▪️Kiro usage tripled QoQ and it's up to 50% more cost-effective than others. Thanks to our customers, partners, and the @awscloud team for another strong quarter:

.@amazon has believed in giving customers choice across AI models for years. We have always supported open-weight models on Amazon Bedrock, starting back in 2023, and will continue to advocate for open ecosystems. No single model will define AI leadership. Customers need access to the most capable frontier models, alongside open-weight models they can adapt, optimize, and deploy for their own workloads. Open and closed models are complementary. Together, they expand access to AI, accelerate innovation, strengthen competition, and give organizations greater control over the technology they build. Successful leadership in AI will not be built around a single model or a single approach. It will be built on broad choice and the infrastructure to run those models securely, reliably, and at scale. While there are elements of the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter that need further definition over time, we’re supportive of the macro direction and have signed it.

Claude Opus 5 is now on Amazon Bedrock. Built for coding and long-running agents, with zero data retention and zero operator access. Also available on Claude Platform on @awscloud, for customers who want @AnthropicAI 's native platform experience.

There's a surprising amount of science behind the packaging your order arrives in. At Amazon's fulfillment centers, machine learning algorithms help analyze millions of products to figure out the best way to package each one. They determine what size, what material, and whether it even needs added packaging at all. The result: protecting products with less waste, one package at a time. Take a look at how it works. ⬇️

Amazon's new smart delivery glasses are like a wearable AI assistant for delivery drivers. 👓 These innovative AI-powered glasses put everything a driver needs directly in their line of sight: package scanning, walking directions, proof of delivery, hazard detection, and more. All without ever pulling out a phone. Hundreds of Delivery Service Partner drivers helped design these glasses from scratch. Here's how they're making deliveries safer and more seamless. ⬇️

.@AmazonLeo and @hero_telecoms just signed an agreement to bring fast, reliable satellite internet to areas of South Africa where existing broadband can’t reach. The service is called Evry, and it will be offered by Herotel and powered by Leo. Proud of the teams making this happen. This is what the work is all about.

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna from @OpenAI are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Three tiers of intelligence, from flagship reasoning to fast inference, running on Bedrock's next-generation inference engine built for high-performance, security, scale, and reliability.

If your chips and models aren't built in lockstep, you're already behind. At @VivaTech, Amazon SVP Peter DeSantis—who leads a new org uniting foundation models and custom chips—explained why they have to develop together, not in sequence. 🤝 "If the chips are not telling the model designers what capabilities are coming and where they can optimize, then we're not doing the science necessary to take advantage of those capabilities until the chips are available—and then you're waiting months and months." Amazon has been doing this since day one. That’s why Trainium is a chip of choice for AI companies building applications from large language models to world models and more.

🚨 Claude Sonnet 5 just landed on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on @awscloud. @AnthropicAI's most capable Sonnet model yet. We're talking advanced intelligence for coding, agents, and professional work. Available now.

Introducing the next iteration of the @zoox robotaxi. ⬇️ After 500,000+ rides, the robotaxi has been improved through real rider feedback. What's new: a more comfortable cabin, a brighter touchscreen and improved charging pad, a refreshed interior, and new exterior cues that make it even easier to distinguish the robotaxi’s front from its rear. The vehicle still has no steering wheel, no pedals, and drives in both directions. Now it's moving into large-scale production.

⚡ How fast is AI really transforming business? @awscloud CEO @mattsgarman said it best: this isn't something we have 20 years to get ready for—it's 20 months. In his conversation with @CaseyNewton on @platformer, he breaks down why AI is moving faster than any tech shift before it and why every industry is on the clock. 🎙️ Full interview available wherever you get your podcasts.

A great meeting with Mr. Andy Jassy. I welcome Amazon's record $48 billion investment in India. This will create new opportunities for our youth. At the same time, it shows the growing interest across the world to invest in India! @amazon

Introducing the next evolution of the Zoox robotaxi. Refined through testing, early deployments, and feedback from 500,000+ riders. More features. More comfortable. Built for scale. And now, moving into large-scale production. Find out more: