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Amazon
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AlexaTM 20B: Amazon's Few-Shot Language Model
AlexaTM 20B is Amazon's 20B parameter seq2seq language model that outperforms PaLM 540B on one-shot summarization and sets state-of-the-art on multilingual translation — while training on one-fifth of GPT-3's carbon footprint. A strong argument for encoder-decoder architecture in few-shot settings.
Amazon Salary Negotiation Guide
Josh Doody's Fearless Salary Negotiation guide to Amazon job offer negotiation — covering the unique RSU vesting cliff, sign-on bonus structure, and total compensation levers that make Amazon offers different from typical tech companies.
Amazon Same-Day Delivery: How the E-Commerce Giant Will Destroy Local Retail
Slate's 2012 analysis of how Amazon's same-day delivery push would eliminate local retail's last advantage — immediacy. Written before Amazon Fresh or Prime Now, this correctly identified the endgame of Amazon's logistics investment.