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AI Big 2 and cloud Big 3 build in-house FDE teams, step up enterprise AX push

Microsoft said on July 2 it will set up a dedicated organisation, Microsoft Frontier Co, to support corporate AI adoption and invest $2.5 billion. The unit will be staffed by 6,000 employees deployed directly to customer sites, including existing field engineers, technical consultants, support staff and industry sales. AWS announced a $1 billion FDE organisation, while OpenAI and Anthropic also formed teams. Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs.

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AWS to launch forward deployed engineering unit with $1 billion investment

Amazon Web Services will set up a dedicated unit that will be deployed directly at corporate customer sites to help spread agent AI, SiliconANGLE reported on Monday. AWS will invest $1 billion to establish a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) division that will dispatch small teams of specialists to support AI agent adoption. The unit will cover agent customization, system integration and employee training, AWS executives said.

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Naver Cloud unveils omnimodal, FDE strategy at defence AX seminar

Naver Cloud said on Wednesday it held a seminar on sovereign AI-based defence AX development strategies and unveiled an AI approach applicable to the battlefield. An executive presented an omnimodal AI model that integrates text, voice, video and maps, and proposed forward-deployed engineers as a core element of defence AI sovereignty. The company also outlined a defence-only AI data centre architecture and a plan to link dispersed military data into an ontology-based knowledge system.