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💥 What’s New in AI: AlexaTM 20B is Amazon’s New Language Super Model Also Capable of Few-Shot Learning

In the last few years, the progress in natural language understanding (NLU) really challenges human imagination. Some of the milestones achieved by models like OpenAI GPT-3 seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. Large AI labs like Microsoft Research, Google Brain, Alexa AI, DeepMind, and Meta AI are regularly pushing the boundaries of NLU research. One of the latest entrances in the language supermodel category came from Amazon’s Alexa AI labs with Alexa Teacher Models™ 20B, a large seq2seq model that set up new marks in few-shot learning.

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