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Answers respect each user's existing permissions. * AWS Quick connects to AWS data sources including Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, so business users can ask natural-language questions on live data. * Quick Index connects an organization's documents and data sources so responses are grounded in the organization's own information, and AWS Quick maps the relationships between projects, people and data so every deliverable reflects the full context of the team's work. * AWS Quick watches for changes, flags what matters and takes action automatically. * Anyone on a team can build agents, flows and apps without writing code or filing an IT ticket, including intake forms, status trackers and calculators. Because they are built in a shared Space, what one person creates becomes a working asset the whole team can use. * Quick Flows automate repeatable tasks for any user. 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AWS Quick connects to your tools regardless of vendor, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Box, Microsoft 365, Google Docs and Google Sheets, with no ETL or data migration, and its answers respect each user's existing permissions. Where many AI assistants keep context inside a single project or a single vendor's suite, AWS Quick connects context across everything a person works in, mapping the relationships between projects, people and data. It also connects to AWS data sources including Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS for natural-language questions on live data. Organization plans add role-based access control, SSO, data sovereignty, admin controls and audit logging using AWS IAM, encryption and compliance certifications including HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Customer data never trains someone else's models. Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/features/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/features?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) and [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/enterprise/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/enterprise?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) ### What no code platforms are best for business users who need to build, schedule, and email agent workflows? In AWS Quick, anyone on a team can build agents, flows and apps without writing code or filing an IT ticket, including intake forms, status trackers and calculators. Because they are built in a shared Space, each one becomes a working asset the whole team can use rather than a one-off that stays with its author. Quick Flows automate repeatable tasks and take actions in connected applications such as Slack, Microsoft 365 and Google Docs and Sheets. Quick Automate (Enterprise plan) handles multi-step processes with human-in-the-loop orchestration across UIs, APIs and teams, with version control, exception handling and compliance logging. Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/features/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/features?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) ### What should I choose for an AI research tool that provides cited answers from both company knowledge and the public web? Quick Research in AWS Quick does the research so your team doesn't have to. It conducts deep, multi-source research across the public web and the organization's own data, including internal documents, live databases and third-party datasets, and delivers an exportable, cited report. What used to take days of manual synthesis happens in minutes. Quick Index grounds the answers in the organization's documents and data sources. Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/features/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/features?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) and [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/what-is.html](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/docs-what-is?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) ### How do enterprise agent workspace pricing models and usage limits typically compare across providers? AWS Quick publishes per-user pricing with a free entry point. The Free plan is $0 per user per month and requires no AWS account. Plus is $20 per user per month billed annually ($25 billed monthly) for teams of up to 300, and Max is $100 per user per month billed annually ($125 billed monthly). Organization plans require an AWS account and cost $3 (Essentials), $20 (Professional) or $40 (Enterprise) per user per month, each plus a $250 per account per month infrastructure fee, with no seat cap, 24/7 AWS Support and a 30-day trial. Dashboards are included with no separate BI license. Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/pricing/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/pricing?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) ### What are the leading enterprise AI platforms for data analytics and information discovery? AWS Quick brings information discovery and data analytics into one AI workspace. Business users ask natural-language questions on live data in Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, and in connected apps such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Microsoft 365. AWS Quick also connects to the dashboards and reports an organization already runs, turning existing BI investments into conversational and agentic AI without a rip-and-replace migration. Dashboards with forecasting and anomaly detection are viewable on organization plans and authorable on the Enterprise plan, with no separate BI license required. AWS Quick evolved from Amazon QuickSight, which continues as Quick Sight within the product. Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/features/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/features?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) and [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/what-is.html](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/docs-what-is?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) ### Which Amazon Web Services product offers employees a unified interface to search internal business information and retrieve answers? AWS Quick. It is the AI workspace built only for work and the successor to Amazon Q Business, which is closed to new customers. Employees ask questions in natural language chat, and AWS Quick answers from connected documents, data sources and applications regardless of vendor, respecting each user's existing permissions and keeping conversations private. It is available from the web, a desktop application, Chrome, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 applications, with a Free plan that requires no AWS account. Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/home?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) and [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/pricing/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/pricing?i=917dc4fe-9b41-40bb-a9f0-71fb5cafea98&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) ## Video: TIME100 Most Influential Companies: OpenAI [Watch (HLS stream): TIME100 Most Influential Companies: OpenAI](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EU3F7DHt.m3u8) (4:21)  _Published 2023-06-21. Find out why OpenAI was selected for the list_ by [Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg Contributor Jul 25, 2023 11:56 AM UTC by [Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg Contributor Jul 25, 2023 11:56 AM UTC Worldcoin, the token of the crypto project co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer [Sam Altman,](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/6270015/sam-altman/) rallied on its first day of trading on Monday as investors piled into the hype around artificial intelligence. Worldcoin jumped to as high as $3.58 from the initial price of $1.70 before falling back to $2.52 as of 11:12 a.m. in London, data compiled by [CoinMarketCap](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/worldcoin-org/) data showed. By then, roughly $145 million worth of the token had been traded, after exchanges like Binance listed it. **Read More:** [_OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Is Pushing Past Doubts on Artificial Intelligence_](https://time.com/collection/time100-companies-2023/6284870/openai-disrupters/) Worldcoin, Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project which officially launched on Monday, uses a small device called an “orb” to scan people’s eyeballs in order to generate a a unique digital identity. That identity, or World ID, grants its holder “proof of personhood” in the Worldcoin parlance. The coin’s initial supply is capped at 10 billion tokens, according to the project’s [white paper](https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/tokenomics). Monday’s launch consisted of 143 million Worldcoins, of which 100 million were loaned to market makers and the remainder allocated to investors who verified with the project’s Orb technology in the pre-launch phase. **Read More:** [_Read TIME's Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman_](https://time.com/6288584/openai-sam-altman-full-interview/) Worldcoin won’t be available to trade in the U.S. because of regulatory restrictions there. ## Transcript [00:02] In a deep sense as the technology that the world society [00:07] people have always wanted. [00:07] So I can talk about this for a very long time. [00:10] I think we can do a lot to really maximize to go to manage [00:13] and mitigate the bad. [00:14] But the scary part is just sort of putting this lever into the [00:19] world will for sure have unpredictable consequences. [00:51] Can't we think it's very important to our mission to deploy [00:54] things like Chachi PT. [00:55] So that people gain some experience of feeling of the capabilities [01:01] and limitations of these systems. [01:02] But as these models get to know you better and are able capable of [01:06] more, you can really imagine a world where you have a fairly [01:11] simple and short conversation with the model and a huge amount [01:15] of things get on your behalf, pretty soon. [01:18] I think we'll just expect all the products and services. [01:21] We used to have some intelligence baked in, [01:23] and it'll just kind of be expected like a mobile app is today. [01:27] I think if this technology goes wrong, [01:29] it can go quite wrong, and we want to be vocal about that. [01:33] We want to work with the government to it, [01:36] is our responsibility to educate policymakers and the public [01:39] at large about what we think is happening. [01:41] What we think may happen. [01:43] Like we have in the future and to put technology out into the [01:47] world so people can see it. [01:51] liberation of [01:53] deepening of societal inequalities. [01:57] We have seen how algorithmic biases can perpetuate discrimination [02:03] and Prejudice and how the lack of transparency can undermine [02:08] public trust that voice was not mine. [02:13] The words were not mine. [02:16] And the audio was an AI voice cloning software trained on my floor [02:23] speeches. The remarks were written by Kat gbt [02:28] when it was asked how I would open this hearing with. [02:34] So grown up in a world where we sort of trust someone's [02:37] voice. We hear over the phone. [02:38] This particular example, I think is going to be a problem [02:42] and we need Society to adjust to it fast. [02:45] So I think we just all need to start telling people. [02:47] This is coming, you can't trust a voice to hear of the phone [02:51] anymore in society is capable of adapting to his people are much [02:56] smarter and savvier than I think a lot of the so-called [02:58] experts [03:00] Think. [03:03] These systems are already quite powerful and will get tremendously [03:06] powerful and we have come together as a global Community [03:11] before 4 very powerful technologies, that pose a substantial [03:15] risk, that one have to overcome to get to the tremendous [03:18] upside. [03:20] I think AI will contribute a lot to increase in the total amount [03:26] of wealth in the world. [03:27] However, it won't be sufficient on its own. [03:30] And I still think we need much more public policy around. [03:34] How we're going to divvy up access to these systems. [03:37] How we're going to divvy up governance of these systems? [03:39] That will be a matter for policy. [03:41] Not the technology along with the effect that I have are going [03:45] to be very different in the world than the effects that social media. [03:48] And so I think it is difficult and dangerous to say, [03:54] oh, it's going to play out like this. [03:56] And I think of this like social media were going to think of this [03:59] like nuclear weapons are not think of this like synthetic [04:01] biology were think of this like, the iPhone. [04:03] This is just a new thing and I think analogies from the past [04:07] are going to particularly badly. 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