Amazon is reportedly investing millions to train a language model, codenamed "Olympus," with 2 trillion parameters. By comparison, OpenAI's GPT-4 allegedly has 1 trillion parameters, though experts caution that bigger models may not necessarily be more capable.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-sets-new-team-trains-ambitious-ai-model-codenamed-olympus-sources-2023-11-08/
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Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus' -sources

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Amazon is reportedly investing millions to train a language model, codenamed "Olympus," with 2 trillion parameters. By comparison, OpenAI's GPT-4 allegedly has 1 trillion parameters, though experts caution that bigger models may not necessarily be more capable.  https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-sets-new-team-trains-ambitious-ai-model-codenamed-olympus-sources-2023-11-08/ #Artificial Intelligence

Jerome Cody

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Temu, a Chinese-owned shopping app targeting US consumers, has become a key factor driving strong revenue growth for its parent PDD, which briefly overtook rival Alibaba in market value.

How Temu, an app for US shoppers, helped PDD catch up with Alibaba in market value

Sam Mendoza

🧐👀 Amazon has laid off hundreds of employees in its Alexa division

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazoncom-cut-several-hundred-alexa-jobs-2023-11-17/

🧐👀 Amazon has laid off hundreds of employees in its Alexa division  https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazoncom-cut-several-hundred-alexa-jobs-2023-11-17/

Amazon.com on Friday announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com to cut 'several hundred' Alexa jobs

Interesting…In addition to selling Olympus-powered services and software to enterprises, Amazon could incorporate the LLM into Alexa for Echo devices, its AWS cloud unit, and its online retail store

The team behind Olympus is led by Rohit Prasad, Amazon's former Alexa head, who is now SVP and head scientist of Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon.

https://voicebot.ai/2023/08/03/amazon-puts-alexa-leader-rohit-prasad-in-charge-of-generative-ai-program/

Interesting…In addition to selling Olympus-powered services and software to enterprises, Amazon could incorporate the LLM into Alexa for Echo devices, its AWS cloud unit, and its online retail store  The team behind Olympus is led by Rohit Prasad, Amazon's former Alexa head, who is now SVP and head scientist of Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon.  https://voicebot.ai/2023/08/03/amazon-puts-alexa-leader-rohit-prasad-in-charge-of-generative-ai-program/

Amazon Puts Alexa Leader Rohit Prasad in Charge of Generative AI Program

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has tapped Alexa chief Rohit Prasad to head up Amazon’s generative AI development team, reporting direct

Jerome Cody

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.