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
Amazon Alexa floundered amid brittle systems: a decentralized mess where teams rowed in opposing directions, clashing product and science cultures in tow... read more
Reinforcement-Learned Teachers (RLTs)ripped through LLM training bloat by swapping "solve everything from ground zero" with "lay it out in clear terms." Shockingly, a lean 7B model took down hefty beasts likeDeepSeek R1. These RLTs flipped the script, letting smaller models school the big kahunas wi.. read more

AI model collapsecould hit hard with synthetic data in play. Picturepre-2022 dataas the “low-background steel” savior for pristine datasets. The industry squabbles over thetrue fallout, while researchers clamor for policies that keep data unsullied. The worry? AI behemoths might lock everyone else o.. read more

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

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

DeepSeek-R1-0528's nanized form chops space needs down to162GB. But here's the kicker—without a solid GPU, it's like waiting for paint to dry... read more

GenAIcomplexity confounds conventional testing. But savvy teams? They fast-track validation insandbox environments, slashing AI debug time from weeks down to mere hours... read more

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

Turns out, Reasoning AIs use a single test compute unit to pack the punch of something 1,000 to 10,000 times its size—an 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

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. It’s nibbling at .. read more
