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Amazon has lagged OpenAI and Anthropic, but AI chief sees path to catch up in 'coming year'
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Amazon 's top artificial intelligence executive told CNBC on Wednesday that he hopes the company will be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier models in the "coming year" after falling behind the two leading labs.
Key facts
- We've got about 50,000 customers for Nova2, so we're pretty excited about it," DeSantis said
- On the other hand, Amazon released Nova2, its latest AI model, in December in a bid to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic
- I think it's a fair narrative that our models haven't been at the frontier for the largest, most demanding workloads," Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon who heads up the company's
- They've been taking a deliberate approach to get their foundations right, their data, their architecture, their infrastructure
Summary
"I think it's a fair narrative that our models haven't been at the frontier for the largest, most demanding workloads," Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon who heads up the company's semiconductor, AI and quantum efforts, told CNBC. "They've been taking a deliberate approach to get their foundations right, their data, their architecture, their infrastructure. The aspiration underscores the effort Amazon is putting into its model development as it looks to reassure investors that it is a key player in the AI boom. Amazon's approach to AI models has been two-pronged.