Amy Stapleton

Conversational AI, Generative AI, Opus Research Senior Analyst

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

@Cisco announced the launch of their AI Defense solution today. Definitely worth a look for companies starting to deploy LLM-based applications, especially customer-facing. Interesting for #CCaaS providers and users as well.
https://t.co/TVK8I6Jj0g

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

https://t.co/ToqVKirOAO

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

How does Satya Nadella’s recent prognostication on the demise of SaaS impact CCaaS software? Are agentic systems a real threat? Some thoughts:

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Our "Riddle of the Beginning" debate (with the great Scott Aaronson and the eminent Pria Natarayan) is online. (I remember I was a bit flummoxed by how some of my interlocutors seem actually no longer curious about this question...) https://t.co/TYUysmtQw8

[Okara @askOkara]

Ilya Sutskever gave a full talk on "Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks"

It's one of the most important talks in 2024

Here are some of my favourite insights from the talk 🧵

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

Cohere just dropped Command R7B

The smallest, fastest, state-of-the-art enterprise-grade LLM.

The best part? It’s Open Weights!

Here’s everything you need to know 🧵

(Cohere Partner)

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

@Vapi_AI’s latest fund raise shows the market for voice agent tech continues to heat up.

[Vapi @Vapi_AI]

We've raised $20M from Bessemer, joined by Abstract, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.

Vapi is the platform for bringing voice AI agents to the world at scale. Today, we’re handling millions of calls per month for customers worldwide.

Voice is the most natural form of human expression, and we want to use it to put humans back at the foreground of technology. Join us!

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

@Vapi_AI Congrats!

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

Link to full blog post @opusresearch
https://t.co/SLqCJ4Jthf

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

Amazon's new Nova models give #CCaaS providers another option as they look to right-size models for optimal performance and cost. More in the comments.

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

Having spent much of my early career crafting Batch Input Processing for controlling SAP systems, this seems like magic!

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

It’s amazing to me how you can now “ask” an AI agent to make updates in your ERP system and have those updates executed.

Take a look at the demo here:

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

Starting at about minute 12:50 in this demo by Amazon of a Nova-powered agent updating an order in SAP…

https://t.co/fnyAeaMrzC

[Jeffrey Scholz @Jeyffre]

I read Google's paper about their quantum computer so you don't have to.

They claim to have ran a quantum computation in 5 minutes that would take a normal computer 10^25 years.

But what was that computation? Does it live up to the hype?

I will break it down.🧵

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

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Some thoughts on how Amazon Q Business now further supports automating workflows…

https://t.co/XIhpIinL0X

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

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Employees are taking advantage of GenAI to ask for business insights in plain language. Amazon Q Business is an example enabler of this capability. Yesterday Amazon announced updates to Amazon Q.

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

Seems positive that they’re focused on offering lower cost alternatives.

[Philipp Schmid @_philschmid]

Unexpected. @amazon is back with Foundation Models. As part of re:Invent they announced 6 new foundation models from text only to text-to-video! 👀 Nova models will be exclusively available through Amazon Bedrock.

TL;DR;
🧠 Micro (text-only), Lite (multimodal), Pro (high-capability), and Premier (coming 2025)
🎨 Canvas (image-generation) and Reel (video-generation)
📊 Context length up to 300K tokens and 200+ languages
🥇 Performance on benchmarks similar to Llama 3
🗺️ Models currently only available in AWS Regions in the US
🔒 Includes watermarking capabilities (no details here)
🔧 Can be fine-tuned inside Amazon Bedrock
💰 Micro: $0.035 / $0.14; Lite: $0.06 / $0.24; Pro: $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

Here's the paper: https://t.co/rJ7zXiSdAH
So my thought is: if LLMs can do this, why do we even need GUIs anymore?

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

@rohanpaul_ai I was thinking about the article you posted on how LLMs can navigate GUIs to carry out tasks for a person, all based just on a person's instructions. 1 / 2

[Amy Stapleton @Talks2Bots]

@rohanpaul_ai Fascinating