Wood: Most enterprises will fine-tune existing models rather than build foundation models
Matt Wood · Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood · Jul 10, 2024 · at 20:35
Matt Wood, VP of AI Products at AWS, discusses enterprise generative AI strategies and why specialized model combinations will outperform single monolithic models.
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“There isn't one model to kind of rule them all. Each different model has, you know, different sweet spots, and it's my expectation that most customers will invest in not building the foundation models, but will invest in fine tuning and improving those individual models and customizing them in interesting ways for their own use case.”
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