German technology firm Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a strengthening of their partnership to build generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications for businesses of all sizes.
To support the initiative, Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of foundation models from a range of AI companies via a single API, along with security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities – with Mendix, its own low-code platform.
“By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are democratising generative AI technology and empowering everyone to create the applications customers need to become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable,” said Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens.
“Making smarter applications without programming expertise accelerates innovation and helps companies to tackle skilled labor shortages.”
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By joining the offerings, the companies hope to enable customers to select the generative AI model that best suits their specific use case and help them quickly and securely incorporate that model into their applications.
The ultimate aim of this joint venture is to make the development and deployment of generative AI systems simpler, faster and more efficient.
According to Siemens, previously, when developers wanted to integrate generative AI models, they had to obtain access credentials and write specialised code. With this new integrated product, the same process ‘can now be done with just a few clicks’.
The Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration was developed to complement AWS’s other generative AI services, including Amazon CodeWhisperer.
Together, the services extend the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users regardless of their programming abilities.
“Together, AWS and Siemens are empowering companies worldwide to create new capabilities, solutions, and value with generative AI,” added Adam Selipsky, AWS CEO.
“This partnership builds on our 10-year relationship with Siemens, giving customers across all industries the flexible, customisable, secure environment they need to take advantage of new opportunities with generative AI.”
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