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Trishul Chilimbi

A distinguished scientist at Amazon
Trishul Chilimbi
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Chilimbi is a vice president and distinguished scientist at Amazon, where he leads the Stores Foundational AI organization. His latest focus is on building specialized foundation models for shopping and e-commerce. As part of this effort, Chilimbi led a team of Amazon scientists behind Rufus, Amazon's new generative-AI-powered shopping assistant. Before joining Amazon in 2017, Chilimbi was a researcher at Microsoft. His prior research focused on scaling deep learning training systems and vision-language pertaining.

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