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In 2024, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) launched the Generative AI Accelerator Challenge (GENIAC)—a Japanese national program to boost generative AI by providing companies with funding, mentorship, and massive compute resources for foundation model (FM) development. AWS was selected as the cloud provider for GENIAC’s second cycleContinue Reading

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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides a comprehensive, out-of-the-box dashboard that delivers insights into foundation model (FM) development tasks and cluster resources. This unified observability solution automatically publishes key metrics to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and visualizes them in Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards, optimized specifically for FM development with deepContinue Reading

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Modern generative AI model providers require unprecedented computational scale, with pre-training often involving thousands of accelerators running continuously for days, and sometimes months. Foundation Models (FMs) demand distributed training clusters — coordinated groups of accelerated compute instances, using frameworks like PyTorch — to parallelize workloads across hundreds of accelerators (likeContinue Reading

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Climate tech startups are companies that use technology and innovation to address the climate crisis, with a primary focus on either reducing greenhouse gas emissions or helping society adapt to climate change impacts. Their unifying mission is to create scalable solutions that accelerate the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon future.Continue Reading

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Emerging transformer-based vision models for geospatial data—also called geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs)—offer a new and powerful technology for mapping the earth’s surface at a continental scale, providing stakeholders with the tooling to detect and monitor surface-level ecosystem conditions such as forest degradation, natural disaster impact, crop yield, and many others.Continue Reading

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Foundation models (FMs) have revolutionised AI capabilities, but adopting them for specific business needs can be challenging. Organizations often struggle with balancing model performance, cost-efficiency, and the need for domain-specific knowledge. This blog post explores three powerful techniques for tailoring FMs to your unique requirements: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning,Continue Reading

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AWS Field Experience (AFX) empowers Amazon Web Services (AWS) sales teams with generative AI solutions built on Amazon Bedrock, improving how AWS sellers and customers interact. The AFX team uses AI to automate tasks and provide intelligent insights and recommendations, streamlining workflows for both customer-facing roles and internal support functions.Continue Reading

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AI agents are revolutionizing how businesses enhance their operational capabilities and enterprise applications. By enabling natural language interactions, these agents provide customers with a streamlined, personalized experience. Amazon Bedrock Agents uses the capabilities of foundation models (FMs), combining them with APIs and data to process user requests, gather information, andContinue Reading

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Time series forecasting is critical for decision-making across industries. From predicting traffic flow to sales forecasting, accurate predictions enable organizations to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and allocate resources efficiently. However, traditional machine learning approaches often require extensive data-specific tuning and model customization, resulting in lengthy and resource-heavy development. EnterContinue Reading