Amazon is investing millions of dollars in advancing its ambitious large language model, codenamed Olympus, to compete with tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
This initiative is aimed at enhancing frame rates and improving the visual quality in games, the development team for this project is led by Rohit Prasad, who previously worked on Amazon’s AI model, Alexa, according to a report from The Information.
Amazon intends to integrate this large language model into its services, such as its online store and smart speakers like Alexa, making its cloud offerings more appealing to customers and businesses.
Amazon believes that having localized models can make its cloud offerings more attractive to customers and enterprises.
Amazon may potentially unveil this new model in December, further bolstering its presence in the AI development and research race.
Amazon seeks to build products that can compete with others like ChatGPT and Bard.
Olympus is one of the largest language models, boasting trillions of data parameters compared to GPT-4’s trillions.
However, it’s essential to note that extremely large language models don’t always outperform significantly smaller models in terms of performance.
Additionally, Amazon is actively working to improve the performance of its voice assistant, Alexa, by leveraging the capabilities of generative AI.
These enhancements enable Alexa to engage in conversations with users, create messages, and respond to complex inquiries.
Amazon plans to release these AI features initially in a limited preview, and there may be subscription fees imposed for access in the future.
