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Google and Anthropic: Strategic Partnership

Google will invest $2 billion in Anthropic to further develop Claude 2, a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Claude 2 can summarize up to 75,000 words and is regarded as the most “self-aware” chatbot. It has been trained to be explicit about what it knows and does not know and answers only questions that it has training data to support.

Related: this previous OM in the News post about Amazon and Anthropic leveraging each other’s work on AI.

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By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2023-11-29T03:32:42+00:00November 29, 2023|Tags: competition, innovation, operations strategy, strategy, supply chain partnership|

Lego Redirects Efforts for Oil-Free Brick Design

Lego’s commitment to eliminate petroleum-based materials from its product has experienced a setback.

After years of research into alternative materials, Lego failed to find an adequate replacement that meets the current durability, safety, and quality standards. Despite the setback, Lego is not wavering from its commitment to reduce its carbon footprint.

It continues to test and develop Lego bricks made from alterative sustainable materials and to take other actions (e.g., replacing plastic packaging with paper) to be more sustainable.

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By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2023-10-20T22:10:35+00:00October 20, 2023|Tags: packaging, product design, quality of conformance, quality of design, strategy, supply chain sustainability, sustainability|

Amazon Achieves Its Fastest Delivery Times

Amazon has reported its fastest ever time for Prime deliveries in the second quarter of 2023.

For the 60 largest metro areas, over half of Prime deliveries were same day or next day. Amazon continues to invest in its same-day delivery service–promising to double its same-day delivery facilities in the coming years.

This strategy has allowed the company to gain a 1/3 share of online orders in the U.S, six times that of its closest competitor, Walmart. Amazon also delivered more than […]

By Ross L. Fink, Ph.D.|2023-09-06T07:32:48+00:00September 6, 2023|Tags: artificial intelligence, distribution, inventory management, logistics, same day delivery, strategy, supply chain|

Amazon Adds More Electric Delivery Vehicles in Europe

To help deliver more packages in a sustainable manner in Europe, Amazon has deployed 300+ Rivian-made electric delivery vehicles (EDV) in Germany, adding to its existing fleet of 1,000 electric vans.

The EDVs are part of Amazon’s $1.09 billion climate pledge to reach the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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Amazon Rivian (July 4, 2023, Amazon.de)

This post is based on the Inside EVs article, Amazon Starts Operating Rivian EDV 500 Electric […]

By Anita Lee-Post, Ph.D.|2023-07-30T03:56:32+00:00July 30, 2023|Tags: cradle-to-grave assessment, service design, social and environmental responsibility, strategy, sustainability|