Issue 36 | Claude in AWS, Gemini in Gmail, and Perplexity for Your Team

Claude in AWS, Gemini in Gmail, and Perplexity for Your Team

Three enterprise AI deployments moved from beta to billing this fortnight. Anthropic's Claude 3 went generally available inside Amazon Bedrock, meaning your cloud team can now call Sonnet and Haiku without managing a single GPU.

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Issue 36

Quick Scan

What matters today

Format Weekly newsletter issue

Audience Executives using AI at work

Time 7 min read

Topic Claude in AWS, Gemini in Gmail, and Perplexity for Your Team

Key points

AWS Bedrock: Claude 3 GA: Amazon Web Services made Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku generally available in Bedrock this week, giving enterprises a fully managed inference path with IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC integration already in place.
Perplexity Pro for Teams Launches: Perplexity launched a dedicated Teams subscription with seat management, usage monitoring, and access to GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3, and Gemini 1.5 Pro as switchable backends.
Claude 3 Haiku Pricing: At $0.25 per million input tokens, Claude 3 Haiku is now the most cost-effective frontier model available through a major cloud provider.

Welcome

This issue gives executives a clean scan of Claude in AWS, Gemini in Gmail, and Perplexity for Your Team. Start with the quick hits, then use the companion guides for the workflows worth testing this week.

Quick Hits

Top AI Updates

1. Claude 3 in Amazon Bedrock: Enterprise AI Without the Infrastructure

Anthropic's Claude 3 models are now generally available through Amazon Bedrock. For enterprises already running on AWS, this removes the last remaining friction point between "we want to use Claude" and "Claude is live in production."

2. Google Workspace Gemini "Help Me Write": AI Drafting in Docs and Gmail

Google quietly activated "Help me write" for all Workspace Business Standard subscribers this week. No plugin installation. No separate app. A blue pencil icon in Google Docs and a prompt button in Gmail compose, backed by Gemini.

3. Perplexity Pro for Teams: Shared AI Research for Executives

Perplexity AI launched a Teams tier this month. The core upgrade is not access to better models. It is administrative control, shared research spaces, and cited outputs that every team member can trust and trace.

Pro Tip

Every executive function processes documents that follow predictable patterns: contracts, vendor proposals, board reports, customer submissions. Claude 3 Sonnet, called through the Amazon Bedrock API, can convert any of these into structured JSON automatically.

Productivity Gem

Most executive communication falls into five categories that repeat every week. Status updates. Stakeholder briefs. Vendor responses. Team check-ins. Board summaries. Google Workspace Gemini can draft all five from bullet-point inputs, without leaving Docs or Gmail.

Health Tip

How to translate AI insights into tactical schedule adjustments for peak performance.

This information is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your health routine.

Kids Tip

Kids create a hands-on AI project: Build a Teachable Machine Image Classifier With Your Kid. A parent or educator helps them build, test, and explain what the AI tool gets right and wrong.