As generative AI continues to drive innovation across industries and our daily lives, the need for responsible AI has become increasingly important. At AWS, we believe the long-term success of AI depends on the ability to inspire trust among users, customers, and society. This belief is at the heart of our long-standing commitment to building … Read more
Generative AI has empowered customers with their own information in unprecedented ways, reshaping interactions across various industries by enabling intuitive and personalized experiences. This transformation is significantly enhanced by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which is a generative AI pattern where the large language model (LLM) being used references a knowledge corpus outside of its training … Read more
Today, organizations are constantly seeking ways to use advanced large language models (LLMs) for their specific needs. These organizations are engaging in both pre-training and fine-tuning massive LLMs, with parameter counts in the billions. This process aims to enhance model efficacy for a wide array of applications across diverse sectors, including healthcare, financial services, and … Read more
This post is co-written with Abhishek Sawarkar, Eliuth Triana, Jiahong Liu and Kshitiz Gupta from NVIDIA. At AWS re:Invent 2024, we are excited to introduce Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. This a revolutionary new capability within Amazon Bedrock that serves as a centralized hub for discovering, testing, and implementing foundation models (FMs). It provides developers and organizations … Read more
This post is cowritten with Isaac Cameron and Alex Gnibus from Tecton. Businesses are under pressure to show return on investment (ROI) from AI use cases, whether predictive machine learning (ML) or generative AI. Only 54% of ML prototypes make it to production, and only 5% of generative AI use cases make it to production. … Read more
Today, we’re excited to announce a new capability that allows you to deploy over 100 open-weight and proprietary models from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and register them with Amazon Bedrock, allowing you to seamlessly access them through the powerful Amazon Bedrock APIs. You can now use Amazon Bedrock features such as Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and … Read more
When using generative AI, achieving high performance with low latency models that are cost-efficient is often a challenge, because these goals can clash with each other. With the newly launched Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation feature, you can use smaller, faster, and cost-efficient models that deliver use-case specific accuracy that is comparable to the largest and … Read more
Building generative AI applications presents significant challenges for organizations: they require specialized ML expertise, complex infrastructure management, and careful orchestration of multiple services. To address these challenges, we introduce Amazon Bedrock IDE, an integrated environment for developing and customizing generative AI applications. Formerly known as Amazon Bedrock Studio, Amazon Bedrock IDE is now incorporated into … Read more
Scaling machine learning (ML) workflows from initial prototypes to large-scale production deployment can be daunting task, but the integration of Amazon SageMaker Studio and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod offers a streamlined solution to this challenge. As teams progress from proof of concept to production-ready models, they often struggle with efficiently managing growing infrastructure and storage needs. … Read more
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent enterprise search service that helps you search across different content repositories with built-in connectors. AWS customers use Amazon Kendra with large language models (LLMs) to quickly create secure, generative AI–powered conversational experiences on top of your enterprise content. As enterprises adopt generative AI, many are developing intelligent assistants powered by … Read more
Organizations of every size and across every industry are looking to use generative AI to fundamentally transform the business landscape with reimagined customer experiences, increased employee productivity, new levels of creativity, and optimized business processes. A recent study by Telecom Advisory Services, a globally recognized research and consulting firm that specializes in economic impact studies, shows that … Read more
Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Although generative AI is fueling transformative innovations, enterprises may still experience sharply divided data silos when it comes to enterprise knowledge, in particular between unstructured content … Read more
Digital experience interruptions can harm customer satisfaction and business performance across industries. Application failures, slow load times, and service unavailability can lead to user frustration, decreased engagement, and revenue loss. The risk and impact of outages increase during peak usage periods, which vary by industry—from ecommerce sales events to financial quarter-ends or major product launches. … Read more
Today, Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce updates to the inference optimization toolkit, providing new functionality and enhancements to help you optimize generative AI models even faster. These updates build on the capabilities introduced in the original launch of the inference optimization toolkit (to learn more, see Achieve up to ~2x higher throughput while reducing … Read more
This post was written with Zach Marston and Serg Masis from Syngenta. Syngenta and AWS collaborated to develop Cropwise AI, an innovative solution powered by Amazon Bedrock Agents, to accelerate their sales reps’ ability to place Syngenta seed products with growers across North America. Cropwise AI harnesses the power of generative AI using AWS to … Read more
This post is co-written with Abhishek Sawarkar, Eliuth Triana, Jiahong Liu and Kshitiz Gupta from NVIDIA. At re:Invent 2024, we are excited to announce new capabilities to speed up your AI inference workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software offerings on Amazon SageMaker. These advancements build upon our collaboration with NVIDIA, which includes adding support … Read more
Today at AWS re:Invent 2024, we are excited to announce a new feature for Amazon SageMaker inference endpoints: the ability to scale SageMaker inference endpoints to zero instances. This long-awaited capability is a game changer for our customers using the power of AI and machine learning (ML) inference in the cloud. Previously, SageMaker inference endpoints … Read more
Today at AWS re:Invent 2024, we are excited to announce the new Container Caching capability in Amazon SageMaker, which significantly reduces the time required to scale generative AI models for inference. This innovation allows you to scale your models faster, observing up to 56% reduction in latency when scaling a new model copy and up … Read more
The generative AI landscape has been rapidly evolving, with large language models (LLMs) at the forefront of this transformation. These models have grown exponentially in size and complexity, with some now containing hundreds of billions of parameters and requiring hundreds of gigabytes of memory. As LLMs continue to expand, AI engineers face increasing challenges in … Read more
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced Amazon SageMaker Fast Model Loader, a new capability in Amazon SageMaker that significantly reduces the time required to deploy and scale large language models (LLMs) for inference. We discussed how this innovation addresses one of the major bottlenecks in LLM deployment: the time required to load massive models … Read more
Chronos-Bolt is the newest addition to AutoGluon-TimeSeries, delivering accurate zero-shot forecasting up to 250 times faster than the original Chronos models [1]. Time series forecasting plays a vital role in guiding key business decisions across industries such as retail, energy, finance, and healthcare. Traditionally, forecasting has relied on statistical models [2] like ETS and ARIMA, … Read more
Today, the Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) analysts in Amazon Finance operations receive queries from customers through email, cases, internal tools, or phone. When a query arises, analysts must engage in a time-consuming process of reaching out to subject matter experts (SMEs) and go through multiple policy documents containing standard operating procedures (SOPs) … Read more
We are excited to announce the availability of Cohere’s advanced reranking model Rerank 3.5 through our new Rerank API in Amazon Bedrock. This powerful reranking model enables AWS customers to significantly improve their search relevance and content ranking capabilities. This model is also available for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base users. By incorporating Cohere’s Rerank 3.5 … Read more
As developers gear up for re:Invent 2024, they again face the unique challenges of physical racing. What are the obstacles? Let’s have a look. In this blog post, I will look at what makes physical AWS DeepRacer racing—a real car on a real track—different to racing in the virtual world—a model in a simulated 3D … Read more
The new efficient multi-adapter inference feature of Amazon SageMaker unlocks exciting possibilities for customers using fine-tuned models. This capability integrates with SageMaker inference components to allow you to deploy and manage hundreds of fine-tuned Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters through SageMaker APIs. Multi-adapter inference handles the registration of fine-tuned adapters with a base model and dynamically … Read more
Prompt engineering refers to the practice of writing instructions to get the desired responses from foundation models (FMs). You might have to spend months experimenting and iterating on your prompts, following the best practices for each model, to achieve your desired output. Furthermore, these prompts are specific to a model and task, and performance isn’t … Read more
Enterprises are facing challenges in accessing their data assets scattered across various sources because of increasing complexities in managing vast amount of data. Traditional search methods often fail to provide comprehensive and contextual results, particularly for unstructured data or complex queries. Search solutions in modern big data management must facilitate efficient and accurate search of … Read more
Generative AI continues to transform numerous industries and activities, with one such application being the enhancement of chess, a traditional human game, with sophisticated AI and large language models (LLMs). Using the Custom Model Import feature in Amazon Bedrock, you can now create engaging matches between foundation models (FMs) fine-tuned for chess gameplay, combining classical … Read more
Large language models (LLMs) have witnessed an unprecedented surge in popularity, with customers increasingly using publicly available models such as Llama, Stable Diffusion, and Mistral. Across diverse industries—including healthcare, finance, and marketing—organizations are now engaged in pre-training and fine-tuning these increasingly larger LLMs, which often boast billions of parameters and larger input sequence length. Although … Read more
Generative AI agents are designed to interact with their environment to achieve specific objectives, such as automating repetitive tasks and augmenting human capabilities. By orchestrating multistep workflows that adapt to evolving goals in real time, these agents increase productivity, reduce errors, and deliver more personalized experiences. To manage these complex workflows effectively, agents rely on … Read more