Bengaluru: Amazon on Thursday launched ‘AI Ready’ initiative to provide free generative AI skills training to two million people by 2025. To support professionals in the workplace, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing eight new, free AI and Generative AI courses that are open to anyone and tailored to in-demand jobs.
These courses enhance the more than 80 free and low-cost AI and Generative AI courses and resources offered through AWS.
Amazon also launched the AWS Generative AI Scholarship and a collaboration with Code.org to help underrepresented and disadvantaged students gain access to next-generation technology education.
Through the AWS Generative AI Scholarships, AWS will award Udacity scholarships worth more than $12 million to more than 50,000 high school and university students from underserved and underrepresented communities globally.
A new AWS study found strong demand for AI talent and the potential for workers with AI skills to earn up to 47 percent more in salaries.
“Looking ahead, AI will become more integral to the way business is done, with 93 percent of businesses expecting to use AI solutions in their organization over the next five years,” the study said.
Amazon’s new AI Ready commitment is in addition to AWS’s commitment to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29 million people by 2025, having already trained more than 21 million people.
