Amazon will continue building large language models despite AGI division layoffs.
“Amazon has acknowledged that rank and file staff are being let go as the unit narrows its scope. A spokesperson denied that this is the end of model training at Amazon saying, we've been building large models for several years, and it remains one of the most important things we're working on.”
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