May 2025

Independent evaluations demonstrate Nova Premiers safety In both black-box stress testing and red-team exercises, Nova Premier comes out on top. Conversational AI Rahul Gupta Christophe Dupuy May 29, 03:22 PM May 29, 03:22 PM AI safety is a priority at Amazon. Our investment in safe, transparent, and responsible AI (RAI) includes collaboration with the global community and policymakers. We are members of and collaborate with organizations such as the Frontier Model Forum, the Partnership on AI, and other […]

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This post, intended to be the first in a series related to discrete diffusion models, has been sitting in my drafts for months. I thought that Google’s release of Gemini Diffusion might be a good occasion to finally publish it. While discrete time Markov chains – sequences of random variables in which the past and future are independent given the present – are rather well known in machine learning, fewer people ever come across their continuous cousins. Given […]

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A first-of-its-kind experiment to measure the impact of out-of-home advertising By combining surveys with ads targeted to metro and commuter rail lines, Amazon researchers identify the fraction of residents of different neighborhoods exposed to the ads and measure ad effectiveness. Economics Egor Abramov May 21, 02:47 PM May 21, 02:47 PM Amazon promotes its products and services through many advertising channels, and we naturally want to know how much bang we get for our buck. We thus try […]

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The path to better plastics: Our progress and partnerships How Amazon is helping transform plastics through innovation in materials, recycling technology, sortation, and more. Sustainability Alan Jacobsen May 12, 11:47 AM May 12, 11:47 AM In 2022, we shared our vision for transforming plastics through an innovative collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s BOTTLE Consortium. Today, that vision is advancing from laboratory concept to commercial trials. Through work with our partners from material scientists to recycling facilities […]

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How Amazons Vulcan robots use touch to plan and execute motions Unique end-of-arm tools with three-dimensional force sensors and innovative control algorithms enable robotic arms to pick items from and stow items in fabric storage pods. Robotics Larry Hardesty May 09, 09:38 AM May 09, 09:38 AM This week, at Amazons Delivering the Future symposium in Dortmund, Germany, Amazon announced that its Vulcan robots, which stow items into and pick items from fabric storage pods in Amazon fulfillment […]

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