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		arcanus on Jan 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia > Amazon gets a lot of flak for totally bungling their internal AI model development, squandering massive amounts of internal compute resources on models that ultimately are not competitive, but the custom silicon is another matter Juicy. Anyone have a link or context to this? I'd not heard of this reception to NOVA and related.

simonw on Jan 27, 2025 [–]

I think Nova may have changed things here. Prior to Nova their LLMs were pretty rubbish - Nova only came out in December but seems a whole lot better, at least from initial impressions: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/amazon-nova/

arcanus on Jan 27, 2025 | [–]

Thanks! That's consistent with my impression.

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