Amazon scales back most Nova AI models to focus on one frontier effort
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Amazon is reportedly scaling back most of its Nova AI models, including the text, video and image models, and placing them in a keep-the-lights-on state.
According to the report, labor and computing power are being shifted to a single frontier-model effort led by Pieter Abbeel. The report also says Amazon closed an 80-person AGI research office in San Francisco a week earlier.
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AIAmazon is reportedly scaling back most of its Nova AI models, including text, video, and image models, placing them in a keep-the-lights-on state. Labor and computing power are being shifted to a single frontier-model effort led by Pieter Abbeel, while the company closed an 80-person San Francisco AGI research office a week earlier.
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