Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the tech giant sees "opportunities" to work alongside smaller companies in the generative AI space.
Jassy — who made the comments during a recent interview with The Financial Times — did not specify which companies or partnerships Amazon could pursue.
- Jassy told the FT that what is possible with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT is "exciting."
- He noted that large deep-tech companies like Amazon have already been working on "very large, generative AI models themselves for a long time" without elaborating.
- In September, Amazon unveiled the 20-billion-parameter Alexa Teacher Model to improve its voice assistant. Researchers claimed it outperformed GPT-3 in NLP and linguistic tasks.
- The comments come as some supporters have voiced concerns that Amazon is trailing competitors such as Microsoft and Google in the generative AI space.
- Amazon has recently partnered with at least one firm in generative AI. Previously, Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI made Amazon's AWS its preferred cloud provider for building and scaling language, image, and other types of AI models. Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image generator released last year.
