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- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is working on an artificial intelligence chatbot to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Chief Executive Andy Jassy is personally involved in the project, Business Insider reported.
- Amazon shares fell 1% in late trading on Monday.
- The project, known internally as “Metis,” would create a chatbot that could be access from a website and would be powered by an internal AI model, known as “Olympus.” Metis is said to be a more powerful version of Amazon’s own Titan foundation model, providing test and image answers, sharing links to sources, suggesting follow-ups and providing more up-to-date information using retrieval-augmented generation, the news outlet added.
- Metis could also be used as an AI agent, creating travel itineraries and other comprehensive plans.
- Jassy is directly involved in Metis and recently reviewed the progress of the project, the news outlet added, citing a person familiar with the matter. The product could be launched as soon as September.
- Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.
- In April, Amazon made its generative AI chatbot Q publicly available to customers. Q, which was first unveiled in November, is capable of writing or fixing code and is capable of making multi-line suggestions for code, Amazon said.
- Separately, in April, Jassy said he thought that generative AI is the company’s next pillar of growth.