Amazon is developing a more powerful large language model (LLM) to power its virtual assistant service, Alexa.
CEO Andy Jassy said the project forms part of the e-commerce giant's larger goal of creating "the world's best personal assistant."
- LLMs are algorithms that are capable of recognizing, summarizing, and generating text.
- Alexa is currently powered by an LLM that Amazon aims to replace.
- Jassy noted that while Amazon has the capacity to invest heavily in its own language models, small companies do not have the same resources.
- He cited the expense of LLMs as the reason for Amazon's rollout of "Bedrock" earlier this month.
- Bedrock provides solutions for companies to develop AI-powered technology based on pre-trained language models