Amazon enters AI chatbot race (finally)

Our Report: Amazon is reportedly about to reveal its first, advanced Large Language Model (LLM), codenamed “Olympus” next week, at its annual AWS conference—re:Invent.

Key Points:

Reports that Amazon was building a new AI model came out in November last year, and with a team dedicated to training it, experts believed (at the time) it could be one of the largest LLMs ever trained.
Amazon Olympus also (allegedly) has multimodal capabilities, which means it doesn’t just process or read text, it can see and understand visual content—ie. videos and images—too.
And if rumors are to be believed, it can also search visual content and find specific scenes or moments via simple text prompts, such as: “Show me the game-winning basketball shot.”

Why you should care: While Amazon has been slow to release a flagship LLM—trailing behind the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—Olympus represents a shift in Amazon’s focus as it enters the AI arena, and the release of its own LLM will also reduce reliance on third-party AI technologies, such as Anthropics Claude chatbot (despite plowing $8B into the start-up).

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Posted on: November 29, 2024, 5:22 pm Category: Uncategorized

By: Stephen Abram

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Amazon enters AI chatbot race (finally)