
Commentary in South Africa’s Sunday Times highlights Amazon Web Services’ new Amazon Nova Forge platform, unveiled at re:Invent, which lets enterprises integrate their own data into the training of high‑end models to create proprietary AI systems. Analysts quoted in the piece say Forge, along with AWS’s new Frontier Agents and Transform tools, could reposition AWS in the AI race by focusing on end‑to‑end enterprise model lifecycle and migration off legacy systems rather than chasing headline public models.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.
Founding members created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to fund and govern open standards like MCP, goose and AGENTS.md for interoperable agentic AI.
Mantel Group and AWS entered a three‑year strategic collaboration to co‑develop and deploy generative and agentic AI solutions across Australia and New Zealand.
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in India by 2030 to support small businesses and AI education.
RapidAI and AWS expanded their partnership at RSNA 2025 to co‑develop and scale cloud‑based clinical AI tools for imaging and stroke care.



