Amazon's Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party – The Information
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I’m nine minutes into a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with Andy Jassy when it becomes clear why the CEO has invited me to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Like everyone else in business these days, he wants to talk about artificial intelligence.
Unless you’ve been under a rock this year, you know that the breakthroughs in large language models are upending the balance in tech. Microsoft is ascendant again after a strategic alliance with hotshot large language model developer OpenAI. Chipmaker Nvidia has skyrocketed to becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world with a lockdown on the chips that businesses everywhere are using to train their models.
But Jassy—who stepped into Amazon’s top job two years ago—thinks things are far from settled. “We are like three steps into this marathon,” he told me, while a Foo Fighters album from his vinyl collection played in the hallway for his staff.
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