August 2022

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 7 stories

1. 120B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning75
2. 2Scaling graph-neural-network training with CPU-GPU clusters
3. 3Amazon’s Janus framework lifts continual learning to the next level

The AI products people actually use. · 9 stories

1. 1How the Zoox robotaxi predicts everything, everywhere, all at once75
2. 2A billion SMT queries a day
3. 3Introducing the Private Hub: A New Way to Build With Machine Learning

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 1 story

1. 1Amazon and University of Washington announce inaugural Science Hub faculty research awards70

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 1 story

1. 1Our approach to alignment research45