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Amazon is looking to get in the LLM game with their own, fully-trained foundation model.

The ecommerce giant is working on a new large language model, codenamed Olympus, in a bid to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft in the corporate software market. Olympus is expected to offer improved performance compared to their existing Titan model and is rumored to be made up of 2 trillion parameters.

Amazon may announce Olympus via AWS in December, but the exact timeline for its development and launch remains unclear. Olympus may play a role in enhancing Amazon's online retail store, Alexa voice assistant, and Amazon Web Services. AWS had previously delayed the launch of Titan as it couldn't match the technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT.

AWS currently offers limited Titan models, while two additional models are designed to provide ChatGPT-like text answers and text summarization capabilities.

How will Olympus ultimately perform? We’ll have to wait and see to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Nvidia unveils H200, its newest high-end chip for training AI models (CNBC)

AI Will Cut Cost of Animated Films by 90%, Jeff Katzenberg Says (Bloomberg)

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What to know about AI chatbot therapists (NBC New York)

Actors strike ends after tentative deal with Hollywood studios (qz.com)

Investors use AI to glean the truth behind executives’ soothing words (ft.com)

Meta to Require Political Advertisers to Disclose Use of A.I. - (The New York Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

AI is about to completely change how you use computers | Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)

Context Windows: The Short-term Memory of Large Language Models (Medium)

Are Designers Happy? Our New “State of the Designer” Report Aims to Find Out (Figma Blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

ishan0102/vimGPT: Browse the web with GPT-4V and Vimium (Github)

Lindy - Announcing a New Way to Create AI Employees (Lindy AI)

AILab-CVC/VideoCrafter: VideoCrafter1: Open Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI (arxiv)

Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training (arxiv)

LLaVA-Plus - Learning to Use Tools For Creating Multimodal Agents (llava-vl.github.io)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

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Automakers Delay Electric Vehicle Spending as Demand Slows (The New York Times)

Children in Mental-Health Crisis Surge Into Hospital E.R.s (WSJ)

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How the global wheat trade works (qz.com)

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One Last Bite 😋