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Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus, which may be 2x bigger than GPT-4. They discuss the competition between Olympus and OpenAI's GPT-4, as well as Amazon's language model strategy and their motivation for creating their own model. They also touch on NVIDIA's development of chips for China, ScaleAI's AI safety lab, and upcoming AI safety standards and regulations.
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  • Amazon is training a 2 trillion parameter model called Olympus, which could potentially surpass Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT-5.
  • The United States is imposing restrictions on China's access to advanced AI chips, pressuring companies like NVIDIA and AMD to limit shipments to certain areas.

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