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 as Olympus, has two trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained.
The logo of Amazon is seen, Nov 15, 2022.Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model , hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The team is spearheaded by Rohit Prasad, former head of Alexa, who now reports directly to CEO Andy Jassy. As head scientist of general artificial intelligence at Amazon, Prasad brought researchers who had been working on Alexa AI and the Amazon science team together to work on training models. Amazon believes having homegrown models could make its offerings more attractive on AWS, where enterprise clients want to access top-performing models, sources said.
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