so this is an old question and the answer was consistent (no) when people asked Andy over the years, but i did ask Adam. he wasn't aware of plans: 'We continue to think that Amazon benefits from having AWS, and we continue to believe that AWS benefits from being part of Amazon.'
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Can AI Deliver Customer Experience Like A Grandmother Would
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Artificial Intelligence Reshaping Global Geopolitical Landscape
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L’Intelligence Artificielle fait de la géopolitique
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Startups Recruit Google and Meta AI Talent with Impact Pitches
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The pitch for those startups wooing Googlers and Meta employees is pretty straightforward: you get to work on problems that have massive impact under really novel constraints, and you don't need the firepower you might have originally needed at Google/Meta/Etc.
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Startups Lower ML Model Training and Serving Barriers
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As the cultures change here—at Meta or otherwise—the net beneficiary is likely to be the startups. Companies like MosaicML/Modal/Anyscale are trying to drop the barrier to training and serving ML models, and a lot of very cool research is being done on compact models.
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Meta Refocuses on Commercial Products, Cuts Bio Research
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Case in point, the WSJ over the weekend published a piece on how Meta is refocusing its efforts to serve commercial products. My understanding is some of its more "out there" projects will be facing scrutiny. Its bio research team, for example, is one I've heard was impacted.
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AI Hype Reshapes Research Talent Competition at Big Tech
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The hype around AI products is quickly changing the way research divisions work within larger orgs. Companies like Meta and Google have spent the last decade wooing some of the smartest minds in machine learning out of academia with the promise of working on cutting-edge tech.
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Stability AI Releases SDXL 0.9 with Major Improvements
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Introducing the latest release from Stability AI: Breaking barriers with #SDXL 0.9! SDXL 0.9 produces massively improved text-to-image and composition detail over the beta release and provides a leap in use cases for generative AI imagery. #StabilityAI Unleash your creativity
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AWS launches $100M generative AI innovation lab initiative
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new: AWS is forming a generative AI innovation lab and putting $100 million behind the effort. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky told me he sees the market as a long race https://
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