Amazon taking on Microsoft and Google in AI race

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The e-commerce giant’s Amazon Web Services unit on Thursday announced two of its own large-language models, one designed to generate text, and another that could help power web search personalisation, among other things.

mixed reviewsAmazon’s large-language models, called Titan, were trained on vast amounts of text to summarise content, write a draft of a blog post or engage in open-ended question-and-answer sessions.

In an interview with Bloomberg Television AWS chief Adam Selipsky said customers asked “‘what you can do to help us with generative AI.’”

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