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Inside Amazon’s new ‘Just Walk Out’: AI transformers meets edge computing
We’re about to see the new AI-based system Amazon has developed, which uses multi-modal foundation models and transformer-based ML.
Inside we find ourselves standing in a full replica of your local bodega, complete with shelves of chips and candy, refrigerators of Coca Cola, Vitamin Water, Orbit Gum, and various odds and ends. The improved AI model can now handle complex scenarios, such as multiple shoppers interacting with products simultaneously or obstructed camera views, by processing data from various sources including weight sensors. It also echoes what we heard from many enterprise decision makers a couple of weeks ago at VB Transform in San Francisco: Large dollar hard-tech AI investments only make sense for companies like Amazon, which can leverage platform effects to create economies of scale.
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