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This post is co-written with Ken Tsui, Edward Tsoi and Mickey Yip from Apoidea Group. The banking industry has long struggled with the inefficiencies associated with repetitive processes such as information extraction, document review, and auditing. These tasks, which require significant human resources, slow down critical operations such as KnowContinue Reading

Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual and textual information. Although base multimodal models offer impressive general capabilities, they often fall short when faced with specialized visual tasks, domain-specific content, or particular output formatting requirements. Fine-tuning addressesContinue Reading

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces the general availability of image content filters, enabling you to moderate both image and text content in your generative AI applications. Previously limited to text-only filtering, this enhancement now provides comprehensive content moderation across both modalities. This new capability removes the heavy lifting required to buildContinue Reading

Gartner predicts that “by 2027, 40% of generative AI solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023.” The McKinsey 2023 State of AI Report identifies data management as a major obstacle to AI adoption and scaling. Enterprises generate massive volumes of unstructured data,Continue Reading

This is a guest post authored by the team at ByteDance. ByteDance is a technology company that operates a range of content platforms to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Users trust and enjoy our content platforms because of the rich, intuitive, and safe experiencesContinue Reading

This post is co-written with Andrés Vélez Echeveri and Sean Azlin from OfferUp. OfferUp is an online, mobile-first marketplace designed to facilitate local transactions and discovery. Known for its user-friendly app and trust-building features, including user ratings and in-app chat, OfferUp enables users to buy and sell items and exploreContinue Reading

Developers face significant challenges when using foundation models (FMs) to extract data from unstructured assets. This data extraction process requires carefully identifying models that meet the developer’s specific accuracy, cost, and feature requirements. Additionally, developers must invest considerable time optimizing price performance through fine-tuning and extensive prompt engineering. Managing multipleContinue Reading