Amazon’s bet that AI benchmarks don’t matter

The Verge
By Alex HeathDec 2, 2025, 5:00 pm144 pts
Rohit Prasad, Amazon's SVP of AGI. This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Amazon's AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards. "I want real-world utility.…

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