Amazon is, in response to a report in Enterprise Insider, creating an AI powered chatbot with the intention of competing with Chat-GPT.
The chatbot, code-named Metis, is powered by an Amazon LLM mannequin named Olympus, which is, in response to varied leaks and reviews, being educated on 2 trillion parameters of information which is roughly double the parameters of GPT-4.
The elevated capability ought to work to make Metis extra able to producing human like responses and fewer prone to hallucinate or make contextual errors.
Metis provides Amazon to a rising checklist of tech giants and startups providing new AI assistants, together with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon-backed Anthropic, amongst a number of others.
Amazon has been pushing exhausting within the generative AI house, attempting to counter the notion that it was caught flat footed within the race to monetise generative AI.
The current AWS Summit in London was dominated by generative AI and CEO Andy Jassy, is reportedly straight concerned with Metis. Jassy has beforehand set out a triple later AI technique involving enabling clients to create new AI basis fashions, serving to them use present basis fashions, and constructing AI pushed purposes.
Computing reported yesterday on Amazon’s efforts to make its Alexa service flip a revenue, and it’s within the utility layer through the Alexa service and model the place Jassy envisions payback.
Final yr Amazon rolled out “Amazon Q,” a generative AI-powered assistant for enterprise use, and in February launched Rufus, a brand new AI buying assistant.
Experiences recommend a tentative launch date of September for Metis.
Computing says:
We should not learn an excessive amount of into names however it’s enjoyable. Metis is an attention-grabbing, and maybe revealing title alternative. It is one other gendered AI undertaking – Metis being a mythological Greek goddess, and first spouse and advisor of Zeus. She was ultimately consumed by Zeus having been tricked into altering her type, as a result of he was afraid of what his and Metis’s offspring would develop into.
Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how possible Metis is to be consumed by one other tech firm which fears it and no matter it spawns.
