00:00One of the best stories in tech right now is also one of the oldest.
00:04I'm Business Week editor Brad Stone.
00:06Amazon, the everything store, is racing to catch up in the multi-billion dollar race
00:12between companies and countries for supremacy in the dawning age of AI.
00:16Five years ago, Andy Jassy took over as Amazon CEO from Jeff Bezos,
00:21and he shares his plan in this month's Bloomberg Business Week
00:24with me and my colleague Matt Day in Seattle.
00:27Jassy wants Amazon to be, of all things, the Amazon of AI,
00:30the marketplace of the latest AI models and chatbots all in one place.
00:33Over the past few months, he negotiated a $50 billion deal with OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman
00:37and another arrangement with anthropic boss Dario Almadé
00:40to bring those models onto Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud platform.
00:45He's also totally revamped Alexa, the home system, to make it more conversational.
00:48Lots of folks were skeptical that Jassy could fill Bezos' shoes.
00:52He's quieted the critics so far with lots of deal-making and personal diplomacy to other companies.
00:58Even though some employees in the office buildings behind me still complain about bureaucracy
01:01and Jassy's strict return-to-office mandate.
01:03In our exclusive profile, Jassy talks to us about his rise to becoming Amazon CEO
01:09and how he manages the complexity of running one of the largest employers in America,
01:13which handles everything from getting those boxes to your doorstep to airing live sporting events.
01:19We also look at Jassy's latest bets from new supermarkets,
01:21shooting satellites in space to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
01:25And we ask, will Amazon be a winner in the age of AI?
01:27That's in the June edition, our annual technology issue of Bloomberg Business Week.
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