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According to Bloomberg, after its in-house large language model failed to achieve the expected results, Amazon scaled back investment in most Nova models and placed its text, video, and image generation models on a minimal-resource footing. The company shifted compute and personnel to a single frontier model project led by Pieter Abbeel; a week earlier, Amazon had also closed an 80-person AGI research office in San Francisco. No further progress has been disclosed.
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Amazon's AI Self-Development Hits a Snag: It Scales Back the Nova Models and Reorganizes the Team
According to a Bloomberg report, after its self-developed large language model failed to achieve the expected results, Amazon reduced investment in most Nova models and placed its text, video, and image generation models in a state where only minimal resources are maintained. The company shifted computing power and personnel to a single frontier model project led by Pieter Abbeel; a week earlier, it had also closed an 80-person AGI research office in San Francisco.