Global technology and cloud company, operator of Amazon Web Services.
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- 🤺 Silicon rivals
“Cisco and Akamai were infrastructure companies in the '90s, and then Amazon and eBay were application companies.”
Source→“I think there may be a bigger than Amazon company, like a headless Amazon, could be a huge huge business.”
Source→“20 million people use this website... it's an affiliate website, and this has been around for 18 years.”
Source→“you can get a thousand runs with one correct swing of the bat”
Source→“Field: 'Roomba was going to be acquired... they want to punish Amazon. And so, they did not let it go through. And because of that, Roomba went bankrupt. And the entire market, at the time, basically went to China.'”
Source→“Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse — Amazon's personal AI memory, now on your wrist or phone (85 votes)”
Source→“Amazon launched two new 'Bee'-branded AI gadgets that can listen to conversations, compose notes and issue reminders.”
Source→“His lab's work on differentiable force closure and grasp synthesis underpins the grasp generation pipeline.”
Source→“WBD learns a general any-to-any repositioning capability: move any object from any body region to any other body region, through sequences of contact transitions.”
Source→“Co-led the research alongside Mukadam. Represents Amazon's internal robotics AI research leadership.”
Source→“Mc Gartoll is at UCSD, Dang at University of Michigan, and Thangeda at Amazon”
Source→“The distilled policy transfers zero-shot to a real Unitree G1 without requiring privileged object state at inference”
Source→“The paper trains a 'play policy' from minutes of goal-free human teleoperation, then lets the robot run autonomously for hours collecting contact-rich data.”
Source→“rather than specifying how to solve each task, they specify how to sustain useful interaction with the environment”
Source→“Previously at Meta AI where he co-authored DexterityGen [11]... He is a key figure in translating dexterous manipulation techniques from hands to whole-body systems.”
Source→“runs at 50Hz on an NVIDIA RTX 5090 on the operator workstation, with 11.8ms median inference time (17.3ms 95th percentile) and 50.1ms median state-to-command delay”
Source→“Are we worried that OpenAI appears to be having a competitive product?... Amazon has suggested they're building their own version of Jev?”
Source→“Amazon then acquired One Medical, and the 3 businesses together became Amazon Health.”
“discrete flow is competitive with, and often slightly surpasses, continuous flow. More surprisingly, discrete regression consistently outperforms continuous regression.”
Source→“Amazon then acquired One Medical, and the 3 businesses together became Amazon Health.”
“Shi is a rising figure in robot learning and control theory, with prior work on flow-based policies.”
Source→“Simchowitz is known for theoretical work in online learning and control”
Source→“Amazon and Google have been incorporating more capabilities into their respective assistants and accompanying smart home products, efforts that were three years in the making.”
Source→“That migration from incumbents to digitally native companies is still very, very early in financial services.”
Source→“The typical Amazon view or Bezos view of that incredible ROI that even incumbent banks have... that means there is a significant opportunity to undercut.”
Source→“Amazon is in talks to buy Decart, a developer of world models and chip optimization software, for around $7b, per the WSJ.”
“Amazon has its own Trainium family of AI chips, which are being used by customers including Anthropic. OpenAI has also committed to using them.”
Source→“Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart, a three-year-old San Francisco AI startup that helps developers run workloads across different chips, for about $7 billion.”
Source→“Amazon is in talks for a $7 billion acquisition of Decart, which develops software to switch between AI chips and is backed by investors including Adobe Ventures.”
“Amazon's chips business has an annual revenue run rate of more than $25 billion and over $225 billion in revenue commitments for its Trainium chips, including from Anthropic and OpenAI.”
Source→“Amazon's chips business has an annual revenue run rate of more than $25 billion and over $225 billion in revenue commitments for its Trainium chips, including from Anthropic and OpenAI.”
Source→“amazon blocking agents combined with shopify saying let's let's go for it or uber and doordash are now letting agents go in there and order your burrito or your car”
Source→“If you throw in the hyperscalers Meta and Amazon, which S&P doesn't include in the tech sector, the share of the AI-pilled part of the blue chip index climbs closer to 50%.”
“Amazon Alexa Tablets — Full Google Play, Alexa+ and a Kindle reading mode (86 votes)”
Source→“$220 billion for 26... that is a larger expense than we've ever had, maybe any company has ever had in a single year.”
Source→“Amazon recently blocked Muse from accessing its site.”
“we rolled out Amazon quick to every single Amazon employee... that has grown like wildfire.”
Source→“Andy's been public about saying this the potential for AWS is really really large and over the next decade the potential is there.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.