Develop a RAG-based application using Amazon Aurora with Amazon Kendra

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing organizations across diverse sectors to enhance customer experience, which traditionally would take years to make progress. Every organization has data stored in data stores, either on premises or in cloud providers. You can embrace generative AI and enhance customer experience by converting your existing data into … Read more

Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek

It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but when it did, it took more than half a trillion dollars — or one entire Stargate — off Nvidia’s market cap. It wasn’t just Nvidia, either: Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft tanked. DeepSeek’s two AI models, released in quick … Read more

Optimizing AI responsiveness: A practical guide to Amazon Bedrock latency-optimized inference

In production generative AI applications, responsiveness is just as important as the intelligence behind the model. Whether it’s customer service teams handling time-sensitive inquiries or developers needing instant code suggestions, every second of delay, known as latency, can have a significant impact. As businesses increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for these critical tasks and … Read more

Track LLM model evaluation using Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow and FMEval

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial as LLM-based systems become increasingly powerful and relevant in our society. Rigorous testing allows us to understand an LLM’s capabilities, limitations, and potential biases, and provide actionable feedback to identify and mitigate risk. Furthermore, evaluation processes are important not only for LLMs, but are becoming essential for assessing … Read more

Jetify launches Testpilot, its AI QA engineer

Jetify, the company formerly known as Jetpack.io, is launching its first AI agent product Tuesday. Dubbed Testpilot, the company’s first AI agent is meant to make the majority of the routine test creation process a matter of simply letting Jetify create a test plan, execute it, and report back, all while the agent directly interacts … Read more

GM expects to save up to $1 billion on Cruise costs

General Motors expects to save up to $1 billion annually by ending its Cruise robotaxi development program, CEO and Chair Mary Barra said Tuesday during the company’s earnings call.  The estimate comes nearly two months after the automaker said it would no longer fund Cruise, its self-driving subsidiary that aimed to commercialize robotaxis. “GM has … Read more

Quibim raises $50M to develop AI models for medical imaging

Quibim, a Spanish startup that’s developing foundational AI models for medical imaging spanning oncology, immunology, neurology, and metabolic disorders, has raised $50 million in a Series A round of funding. The cash injection comes as AI makes ever deeper inroads into healthcare, spanning everything from drug discovery to clinical trials. Quibim, for its part, is … Read more

Blockchain Startup BTQ Proposes More Energy Efficient Alternative to Crypto’s Proof of Work

A recently published journal article by researchers at BTQ, a startup working to build blockchain technology that can withstand attacks from quantum computers, has proposed an alternative to the Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm involving quantum technology. Proof of Work is a blockchain consensus mechanism that secures the Bitcoin network. Participants crunch through vast amounts … Read more

The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk

Elon Musk bought Twitter, and now he’s rebranding it as X. Signs have gone up (and back down), icons are changing, and an old plan is new. How’d we get here? On April 4th, 2022, we learned that Musk had purchased enough shares of Twitter to become its largest individual shareholder. Eventually, he followed up … Read more

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for government agencies

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a version of its flagship chatbot that’s tailored to government agencies. The company says the tool will let US government agencies securely access OpenAI’s frontier models, like GPT-4o. As noted by OpenAI, government agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov within their own Microsoft Azure cloud instance, making it easier to manage … Read more

MOVE Jumps 20% on Trump-Linked World Liberty Fi Token Purchase, Musk’s DOGE Involvement

The native token of Movement, an Ethereum layer-2 network built using the Facebook-created MoveVM coding language, jumped on Tuesday after Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial purchased tokens. There was also a fresh report that the network is among the blockchains in discussion with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The MOVE token spiked … Read more