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- After showcasing an upgraded Alexa last year, Amazon has also started working on a ChatGPT competitor.
- Codenamed Metis, the chatbot is based on Amazon’s rumored Olympus language model.
- Metis is currently being tested internally, with a launch planned for later this year.
Amazon has been working on a more capable version of Alexa for a while now, but a new leak has revealed that the company is also secretly developing a full-blown competitor to ChatGPT. According to a Business Insider report, the chatbot project is known as Metis internally and uses the company’s rumored Olympus large language model.
The Olympus model first broke cover late last year, when rumors indicated that it would have two trillion parameters — about twice as large as GPT-4. In machine learning, parameters are the fundamental units of the model’s inputs and outputs. A higher parameter count could signal a more capable model, but response quality also depends on other factors like the dataset used during training.