Amazon is developing an enhanced LLM to power Alexa

Amazon is building a more "generalized and capable" large language model (LLM) to power Alexa, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said during First quarter earnings call Yesterday. An LLM, like ChatGPT, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, and generate text and other knowledge-based content from massive amounts of text data.

Jassy said that although Amazon had an Alexa-powered LLM, the tech giant is working on one that is more capable than the current one. The Amazon executive believes the addition of an enhanced LLM will help Amazon work toward its goal of creating "the world's best personal assistant," but acknowledged that doing so will be difficult in many areas.

"I think when people often ask us about Alexa, what we often share is that if we were just building a smart speaker, it would be a much smaller investment," Jassy said during the call. “But we have a vision, we're convinced that we want to build the best personal assistant in the world. And to do this, it is difficult. It is in many areas and it is a very broad surface. But if you think about the advent of big language models and genetic artificial intelligence, it makes the underlying models much more efficient, so I think it really accelerates the possibility of creating the best personal assistant in the world."

Jassy went on to say that he thinks Amazon has a good starting point with Alexa, as it has "several hundred million endpoints" used in entertainment, shopping and smart home. He also noted that there is a lot of involvement from third-party ecosystem partners.

"We had a big language model underneath it, but we're building one that's much bigger and much more generalized and capable," Jassy said. “And I think that will very quickly accelerate our vision to be the best personal assistant in the world. I think there's an important business model underneath that."

Κατά τη διάρκεια της κλήσης, ο Jassy τόνισε ότι η Amazon έχει επενδύσει σε AI και LLMs εδώ και χρόνια και ότι ενώ έχει τη δυνατότητα να επενδύσει σε μεγάλο βαθμό στην κατασκευή LLM, οι μικρές εταιρείες δεν το κάνουν, γι ‘αυτό η εταιρεία ξεκίνησε το Bedrock νωρίτερα αυτό το μήνα. Το Bedrock παρέχει έναν τρόπο δημιουργίας παραγωγικών εφαρμογών που υποστηρίζονται από AI μέσω προεκπαιδευμένων μοντέλων από νεοσύστατες επιχειρήσεις, όπως: AI21 Laboratories, Humanity and AI Stability. Available in a “limited preview,” Bedrock also offers access to Titan FMs (foundation models), a family of models trained internally by AWS.

Since its launch last year, ChatGPT has been dominating the internet and growing in popularity. With all the hype surrounding ChatGPT, it's no surprise that major tech companies are scrambling to incorporate LLM-based enhancements into their own offerings to keep up with the fast-paced AI space. For example The information ανέφερε χθες ότι η Apple αναπτύσσει βελτιώσεις που βασίζονται σε LLM για τη Crab. Δεν αξίζει τίποτα ότι η Google πιθανότατα κάνει κάτι παρόμοιο για τον Βοηθό.

Η Amazon δεν ήταν η μόνη εταιρεία που αναφέρθηκε στην τεχνητή νοημοσύνη κατά τη διάρκεια της τριμηνιαίας κλήσης της με επενδυτές, καθώς η Alphabet, η Microsoft και η Meta τόνισαν τις επενδύσεις τους και σε μεγάλα γλωσσικά μοντέλα. Ο διευθύνων σύμβουλος της Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, δήλωσε ότι η Google θα συνεχίσει να ενσωματώνει την AI για να προωθήσει την αναζήτηση, ενώ ο διευθύνων σύμβουλος της Microsoft, Satya Nadella, δήλωσε ότι η εταιρεία θα συνεχίσει να επενδύει στην AI, σημειώνοντας ότι η Microsoft έχει ήδη δει αύξηση της χρήσης του Bing μετά την ενημέρωση της μηχανής αναζήτησης με ενσωμάτωση του ChatGPT. Επιπλέον, ο διευθύνων σύμβουλος της Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, δήλωσε ότι η εταιρεία θα επενδύσει στην τεχνητή νοημοσύνη και θα εισαγάγει νέες ενημερώσεις που σχετίζονται με την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη στις εφαρμογές της.

Amazon reported first-quarter earnings that beat expectations and initially sent shares higher, but later reversed course after executives expressed concerns about continued weakness in its growth. cloud. Revenue for the quarter rose 9,4% to $127,4 billion, while operating income was $4,8 billion.