Amazon
Amazon is a global tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Retailers |
| Website | http://amazon.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, Amazon researchers released4,019 AI research articles
- #7in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 36.46citations per AI article on average (#108 in PARAT, #56 in the S&P 500)
- 619highly cited articles (#9 in PARAT, #6 in the S&P 500)
- +6.8%growth in Amazon's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 1,363articles at top AI conferences (#7 in PARAT, #4 in the S&P 500)
- 57.3%of Amazon's total public research was AI-focused
Amazon's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 835 | 60.3 | 12.83 |
| NLP publications | 1376 | 30 | 4.75 |
| Robotics publications | 164 | 25.7 | 32.78 |
| AI safety publications | 308 | 49.1 | 0.92 |
| Large language model publications | 1078 | 30.6 | 21.35 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Amazon filed2,168 AI-related patents
- #17in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 23.7%growth in Amazon's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 1,959AI-related patents were granted to Amazon (2017–2020)
- 17.6%of Amazon's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Amazon's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Control patents | 377 | 23.35% |
| Computer vision patents | 353 | 13.24% |
| Speech processing patents | 328 | 23.95% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 199 | 39.44% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 134 | 45.18% |
Top use cases across Amazon's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 1201 | 36.09% |
| Telecommunications patents | 469 | 10.36% |
| Transportation patents | 421 | 29.68% |
| Business patents | 280 | 20.45% |
| Security patents | 87 | 6.01% |
15,009
AI jobs
According to our data, Amazon currently employs about 15,009 AI workers (#1 rank in PARAT, #1 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
134,139
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Amazon currently employs about 134,139 Tech Team 1 workers (#3 rank in PARAT, #3 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.