AWS Partners with Hugging Face and Other Current Events
Created on February 22|Last edited on February 22
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AWS just partnered with HuggingFace. What does this partnership entail? From this article, it seems that HuggingFace is developing the next version of BLOOM on AWS.
AWS will also be making HuggingFace models available for cloud users to build off of.
There was no financial disclosure of this partnership, but it seems very timely that it follows recent investments made by other large tech companies. That is, Google's $300 million Anthropic investment and Microsoft's $10 billion OpenAI investment.
This could be Amazon's slice of the ChatGPT pie.
I recently listened to a Gradient Dissent podcast episode "Sarah Catanzaro — Remembering the Lessons of the Last AI Renaissance" and Sarah mentioned how the last AI Renaissance, in roughly 2013-2014, startups were captured by the promise of AI.
To elaborate, in my rough summary of that segment of the podcast, startup sentiment was generally about how promising AI could be and not what problems it could solve. As an analogy, it's like hammering nails that are only compatible with your hammer rather than finding the appropriate hammer for the nail.
I wonder if this same sentiment is on the rise again given the colossal amount of publicity ChatGPT received and whether or not the copious waves of funding entering the AI market would drive production more effectively than the last Renaissance.
Some Other Interesting Current Events!
- NVIDIA GTC 2023 is featuring the latest trends and developments in the AI space, like robotics and generative AI, with talks from Ilya Sutskever from OpenAI, Demis Hassabis from DeepMind, Emad Mostaque from Stability AI, and more.
- Blackbird.ai, a company focused on providing enterprise solutions in mitigating and analyzing risk, just released RAV3N, a copilot in corporate risk assessment.
- Along the lines of a copilot, Grainfox, a company providing a tool for farmers to sell crops more effectively, released their very own Smart Advisor platform which advises the user on sale recommendations, like an assistant
- Coca-Cola is banding together with OpenAI and Bain & Company, a management consulting company, to leverage generative AI (image and text generation) for consumer experiences
References
Bass, Dina. “Amazon's AWS Joins with AI Startup Hugging Face as CHATGPT Competition Heats Up.” Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg, 21 Feb. 2023.
“Grainfox Launches Machine Learning and AI-Based Smart Advisor Platform.” RealAgriculture.com, 21 Feb. 2023.
“Blackbird.AI to Launch rav3n Copilot, a Generative AI Solution for Narrative Intelligence & Risk Reporting.” PR Newswire: Press Release Distribution, Targeting, Monitoring and Marketing, 21 Feb. 2023.
“Nvidia GTC 2023 to Feature Latest Advances in AI Computing Systems, Generative AI, Industrial Metaverse, Robotics; Keynote by Jensen Huang; Talks by OpenAI, Deepmind Founders.” NVIDIA Newsroom, 1 Feb. 2023.
Johnston, Lisa. “Coca-Cola Signs as Early Partner for OpenAI's CHATGPT, Dall-e Generative AI.” Consumer Goods Technology, 21 Feb. 2023.
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