Amazon sets new team to trains ambitious AI model 'Olympus'
Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top model s from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The model, codenamed as “Olympus”, has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained. OpenAI's GPT-4 models, one of the best models available, is reported to have one trillion parameters. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the project were not yet public. Amazon declined to comment. The Information reported on the project name on Tuesday. The team is spearheaded by Rohit Prasad, former head of Alexa, who now reports directly to CEO Andy Jassy. As head scientist of general artificial intelligence (AI) at Amazon, Prasad brought researchers who had been working on Alexa AI and the Amazon science team together to work on training models. Amazon has already trained smaller model s such as T...