Andy Jassy Says West Is ‘Very Hungry’ For More Western Open Source AI Models as Amazon Adds China’s Kimi and GLM to Bedrock

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Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its Bedrock AI platform with China’s Kimi and GLM open models, while CEO Andy Jassy outlined ambitions for the service to eventually match Amazon’s massive EC2 cloud business.

Amazon disclosed the additions during its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, adding to Bedrock’s mix of proprietary and open AI models. Jassy said Bedrock now offers closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI, alongside open models such as Moonshot‘s Kimi K3 and Z.ai‘s GLM 5.3. He also referenced Space Exploration Technologies Corp. SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 model on Bedrock.

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“The Western world is very hungry for additional open models that are Western open models,” Jassy said, adding, “I believe that will happen over time as well.”

He called Bedrock’s potential “gigantic,” suggesting the platform could…