Amazon is investing in giant language fashions (LLMs)
Amazon is investing thousands and thousands in coaching an bold giant language mannequin (LLMs), hoping it might rival prime fashions from OpenAI and Alphabet, two individuals aware of the matter advised Reuters.
The US-based mostly e-commerce big Amazon is reportedly investing a major sum of money in coaching an bold giant language mannequin (LLM) codenamed ‘Olympus.’ This AI mannequin will likely be in competitors with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard AI.
According to a report from Reuters, the Olympus AI mannequin has two trillion parameters which might make it one of many largest fashions being educated.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 fashions, among the best fashions obtainable, is reported to have one trillion parameters. The sources near Reuters knowledgeable that the workforce is spearheaded by Rohit Prasad, former head of Alexa, who now stories on to CEO Andy Jassy.
As head scientist of normal synthetic intelligence (AI) at Amazon, Prasad introduced researchers who had been engaged on Alexa AI and the Amazon science workforce collectively to work on coaching fashions.
“Amazon has already trained smaller models such as Titan. It has also partnered with AI model startups such as Anthropic and AI21 Labs, offering them to Amazon Web Services (AWS) users,” the report mentioned.
As per Reuters, Amazon is investing in giant language fashions (LLMs) to make its cloud computing platform, AWS, extra interesting to enterprise prospects. LLMs are the expertise behind AI instruments that may generate human-like responses after being educated on huge quantities of knowledge.
However, coaching bigger synthetic intelligence fashions is dearer because of the vital computing energy wanted.
In an earnings name final April, Amazon executives indicated that the corporate would increase its funding in LLMs and generative AI whereas decreasing spending on achievement and transportation in its retail operations, the report mentioned.
Meanwhile, Amazon rival OpenAI has introduced to roll out customized variations of its AI chatbot ChatGPT that folks can create for a selected goal. Called GPTs, these AI fashions are a brand new manner for anybody to create a tailor-made model of ChatGPT to be extra useful of their day by day life, at particular duties, at work, or at residence, after which share that creation with others.
(With inputs from Reuters)
