In addition to its new AI Remarkable Alexa, Amazon is reportedly working on developing a chatbot codenamed Metisa direct competitor to ChatGPT that would be available for free from a simple web browser. Based on a large language model (LLM) even more advanced than GPT-4, it should be presented next September at the company’s annual big event. Let’s see what it’s all about.
Amazon Metis: an AI even more remarkable than Alexa?
According to Business Insider, an American media outlet that is always very well informed, Amazon is not only working on Remarkable Alexa, which should soon be offered by subscription to users of Amazon Echo devices, but also on a chatbot named Metis available for everyone. Powered by Olympus, a conversational AI based on the LLM Titan, it should be more powerful than GPT-4o, the idea being to integrate it into our voice assistants or home robots.
In fact, this new model uses the enhanced recovery regeneration (RAG), a technique that combines text generation capabilities with traditional information retrieval methods to improve search results. This type of AI is capable of reformulating and enriching queries, generating summaries and synthetic responses, using images and text, but above all offering a more precise and efficient user experience thanks to contextual information. . Highly anticipated artificial intelligences for voice assistants such as Alexa or robots like Amazon Astro, because they will make it possible to obtain more relevant and always up-to-date information. For example, Metis should be able to respond to us based on the latest news, provide us with current stock prices, give us the latest scores of our favorite teams and athletes, book a flight for our next vacation, or to control our home automation based on its current state.
Amazon is trying to catch up
The development of Metis is part of a broader strategy to solidify Amazon’s position in the AI space. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has stressed the importance of language models and generative AI for the company’s future. He said these technologies will be key to improving customer experiences and driving long-term growth by bringing advanced features to its AWS offerings like Amazon Q and strengthening products like its Amazon Echo devices or Fire TV with its Alexa voice assistant.
To do this, the company is investing heavily in the field, notably through a partnership with the startup Anthropic, which specializes in security and AI research. This collaboration, which includes an investment of $4 billion, allows Amazon to compete directly with OpenAI, supported by Microsoft, and Google in the AI race. Anthropic is particularly known for its Claude 3 language model, a generative assistant quite similar to ChatGPT, which aims to be able to respond in a conversational and user-friendly manner.
In summary, by investing heavily in technologies such as Titan, Olympus, Metis and Alexa, Amazon aims to offer advanced and customizable AI solutions, thus strengthening its AWS services and its products with integrated Alexa. Metis could well be an important step in Amazon’s strategy to dominate the AI market, or at least remain competitive against rivals Microsoft and Google.
