Amazon CEO sets out AI investment mission in annual shareholder letter

By Greg Bensinger and Deborah Mary Sophia

(Reuters) -Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy on Thursday justified the company’s billions of dollars in outlays for artificial intelligence development, saying the investment was necessary to remain competitive.

“If your mission is to make customers’ lives better and easier every day, and you believe every customer experience will be reinvented by AI, you’re going to invest deeply and broadly in AI,” Jassy wrote in his letter to shareholders, an…