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Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The model, codenamed Olympus, has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained. OpenAI's GPT-4 model, one of the best models available, is reported to have 1 trillion parameters.Amazon declined to comment. The Information reported on the project name on Tuesday .

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 users. LLMs are the underlying technology for AI tools that learn from huge datasets to generate human-like responses.

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