You have all these labs spending billions on researchers and training clusters, not seeing much return on investment, meanwhile Amazon just partners with the labs, and provides inference for their models, and that seems to be fairly profitable for them.

Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?

Amazon will reap the results of the talent war. Why?

Because Amazon will build services on top of the technologies that come out.

Just today on hn there was a guy that trained his tiny model and got better results than most of the big models. He wasn’t paid 200m.

The gold rush is here, but the results are still shaking out.

I had totally forgotten that I signed up for the Kiro waitlist. It seems Amazon has also totally sat out the interest in their AI offering.

Has anyone had a chance to use Kiro at all? At this point I'm not even interested in it anymore, even if I got an invite.

The top researchers published enough details on how to build what works well. Amazon can copy what's useful. They'll probably do it in a way that makes profit, too. Neither talent wars nor AI, startup models contribute to that.

Why would Amazon want to invest in AI, which would help their customers find what they want to buy, when they make all their profit from showing their customers what they don’t want to buy with monetized search?

Amazon just has to host LLaMa and Qwen locally, just as they do so many other packages developed by others, and charge for their AWS compute credits. Why do they need “AI talent”?

AWS is a fantastic metaphor for selling shovels during a goldrush. I can see how Amazon would not be motivated to go out and "look for gold" itself.

> Amazon is exploring ways to allow for more "location-flexible" roles, the document added.

If only the technology existed to do work remotely, what a shame.

They are in the shovel sales business in this gold rush.

Zuckerberg has to rush into every new fad with billions of dollars because he was a one trick pony with FaceBook.

Metaverse will never be FaceBook.