AWS Opens Applications for 2025 Generative AI Accelerator to Support Startups Building Foundational AI
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, Inc., has opened up applications for the third cohort of the AWS Generative AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI Eight -week program designed to set up startups at an early stage, the construction of AI generating technologies. Forty promising startups from around the world will be selected for this year’s program, which starts on October 13, 2025, in Amazon HQ1 in Seattle. Applications are open from June 10 to July 10 and the selected cohort will be announced on September 24, 2025. Startups can apply.
With generative AI tools that are now widely available, AWS focuses on efforts in 2025 to support startups that develop generations, including construction models, infrastructure, fine adjustment tools and agent workflows that will lead to the next innovation wave. The program aims to accelerate these teams with up to $ 1 million in AWS credits, technical advice and mentoring, marketing support and access to AI generation of AWS technology.
“We are now at a stage where almost all startups will apply a generative AI to their business in a form or form. This is why for this year’s accelerator, we allow to support these startups which develop fundamental technologies that will define what is possible with AI, ”said Jon Jones, vice-president and global manager of startups at AWS. “This year’s program is part of our continuous commitment to accelerate AI generative innovation in the world by offering revolutionary startups with credits, mentoring and the visibility they need to evolve with confidence.”
The generative AI accelerator is an eight -week hybrid program, offering virtual sessions between the launch in person at Amazon in Seattle and the conclusion of the program at AWS Re: Invent 2025. Startups creating large languages, infrastructure tools, fine adjustment platforms or foundation agents are particularly encouraged. Companies should have a minimum viable product (MVP) functional, a certain customer traction and a solid technical team. An AWS prior experience is not required, but those who are already based on AWS will benefit the most from the architecture and market activation advice.
“At Latet Labs, we build AI foundation models to make programmable biology and accelerate and improve the discovery of drugs. The AI generative accelerator offered us a unique mixture of technical depth and commercial scope, which has helped to accelerate both our platform capacities and our market adoption. AWS. Help the generative scale. Simon Kohl, CEO and founder of Latent Labswhich participated in the AWS generative accelerator of 2024.
“At Splash Music, we reinvent the way music is created and discovered, transforming it of a substantive activity into interactive and expressive consumers of generation Z. The support of the marketing strategy, public exhibition and hiring world class talents helped us to cross milestones faster than expected. Tracy Chan, CEO of Splash Musicpart of the program last year.
Cohort 2025 will reflect AWS’s commitment to global inclusion, with selected companies from North America, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Latin America. The program will include specific mentorship and support for fundamental model companies, infrastructure providers and application layers.
