Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war

Posted by ripe 9/1/2025

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war(www.businessinsider.com)

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indigodaddy 9/1/2025|

So what's the tldr, are they just too cheap too pay for top AI scientist talent-- which is imagine they would need in order to enter the fray?

segfault99 9/2/2025||

Apple: Hold my beer!

haileyLlyod3 5 days ago||

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draw_down 9/2/2025||

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Mallowram 9/1/2025||

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gtirloni 9/1/2025||

> "GenAI hiring faces challenges like location

No! Really? With RTO? Unbelievable /s

HardCodedBias 9/1/2025||

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gherard5555 9/2/2025||

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nerderloo 9/2/2025|

I find AWS extremely difficult to use compared to GCP. Even though we received startup credits—which are essentially free money—we’re letting them go to waste because the platform is so much harder to work with.

It’s no surprise that AWS’s revenue growth is lagging behind GCP and Azure.

Beyond the AI talent gap, Amazon seems to be making serious missteps in its own core business.

It reminds me of Apple. At first, people thought Apple was being strategic by staying out of the AI race and waiting to pick the winner. But in reality, it turned out to be an inability to adapt to the new trend. I expect the same pattern from Amazon.