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I’m assuming that this represents a massive pivot into LLM assistants and these jobs were in support of the legacy system which will be deprecated soon.

The legacy system is the system. Amazon fired a bunch of people this time last year because it was supposed to have Titan. Titan is completely underwhelming, and so they had to wait. Hence the PR around "democratizing LLMs." Unless Amazon is using Llama2 (because Titan utterly failed), there is no alternative. GPT-3.5 (the free version) can easily out perform anything Amazon has, and anything Alexa can do.

An utter failure by Dave Limp and company.

Or..."no path to revenue"?

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