What we know about Amazon's Alexa LLM

Amazon has officially joined the commercial language model race with the announcement of the Alexa LLM.

There is no detail on the model architecture or training data and training process, which is unfortunately slowly becoming the norm in the industry.

However, based on a blog post by Alexa's Vice President, Daniel Rausch, and a product demo video, we can make speculations on how the model works.

Key findings:

• Alexa LLM will be multimodal, embedding commands, different voice characteristics, visual features, and more.

• The model has been designed to work with external APIs like ChatGPT plugins or the Toolformer approach

• The model adapts to users though the details are not clear—we can assume that Alexa LLM uses an advanced form of retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

• The model uses in-context learning to maintain coherence over long sequences of interactions between the user and the assistant

• Amazon aims to give the model personality, so we can expect it to be opinionated on some topics that might be controversial

• The model will be available as a “free preview,” but don’t expect Amazon to provide it as free as a final product (Alexa was losing money already)

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