AI at Amazon: a case study of brittleness
Amazon Alexa floundered amid brittle systems: a decentralized mess where teams rowed in opposing directions, clashing product and science cultures in tow... read more Â
Amazon Alexa floundered amid brittle systems: a decentralized mess where teams rowed in opposing directions, clashing product and science cultures in tow... read more Â
Meta's Llama4models, Scout and Maverick, strut around with17B active parametersunder a Mixture of Experts architecture. But deploying onGoogle Cloud's Trillium TPUsor A3 GPUs? That's become a breeze with new, fine-tuned recipes. Utilizing tools likeJetStreamandPathways? It means zipping through infe.. read more Â

FrontierLarge Reasoning Models (LRMs)crash into an accuracy wall when tackling overly intricate puzzles, even when their token budget seems bottomless.LRMsexhibit this weird scaling pattern: they fizzle out as puzzles get tougher, while, curiously, simpler models often nail the easy stuff with flair.. read more Â

The Gemini Agent Network Protocol introduces powerful AI collaboration with four distinct roles. Leveraging Googleâs Gemini models, agents communicate dynamically for improved problem-solving... read more Â
DeepSeek-R1flips the script on training LLMs. Armed withGRPO, it challenges the industry heavies like OpenAI's o1 by playing smart with custom data and cleverly designed rewards. Imagine this: a humble 1.5B model, running on merely asingle H100, clocks in at an 80% build pass rate. Itâs nibbling at .. read more Â

Mistral AIâs âLe Chatâ leads in privacy-focused AI, beating out OpenAIâs ChatGPT and xAIâs Grok.Consumer privacy concerns are reshaping the AI landscape, with 68% worried about online privacy.Regional regulations impact privacy practices, with Mistral AI benefiting from Europeâs strict GDPR rules... read more Â
Graviton4just cranked up the juice to600 Gbps. In the grand race of public cloud champions, it's gunning straight for Nvidia's AI kingdom, powered by the formidableProject Rainier... read more Â

DeepSeek-R1-0528's nanized form chops space needs down to162GB. But here's the kickerâwithout a solid GPU, it's like waiting for paint to dry... read more Â

AWS chops up to45%from Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU prices. Now your AI training costs less even as GPUs play hard to get... read more Â

Turns out, Reasoning AIs use a single test compute unit to pack the punch of something 1,000 to 10,000 times its sizeâan acrobatics act impossible before the might of GPT-4.Noam Brown spilled the beans on Ilya's hush-hush 2021 GPT-Zero experiment, which flipped his views on how soon we'd see reasoni.. read more Â
