Amazon is making a huge investment to train an ambitious large language model (LLMs) codenamed “Olympus”, to rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet.
LLMs are the underlying technology for AI tools that learn from huge datasets to generate human-like responses.
Even though the details of the project were not yet public, the Model said to have 2 trillion parameters could become one of the largest models to be trained.
Former Head of Alexa, Rohit Prasad who now reports directly to CEO Andy Jassy as Head Scientist of General Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Amazon, is to lead the team by bringing researchers who had been working on Alexa AI and the Amazon science team together to work on training models.
Amazon has already trained smaller models such as Titan.
It has also partnered with AI model startups such as Anthropic and AI21 Labs, offering them to Amazon Web Services (AWS) users.