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World War I Photo Colorization/Restoration with Flux.1 Kontext [pro]

I’ve got some old photos from a family member that served on the Western front in World War I. I used Flux.1 Kontext for colorization, using the prompt “Turn this into a color photograph”. Quite happy with the results, impressive that it largely keeps the faces intact. Color of the clothing might not be period …

Analyzing the Effect of Linguistic Similarity on Cross-Lingual Transfer: Tasks and Input Representations Matter

Cross-lingual transfer is a popular approach to increase the amount of training data for NLP tasks in a low-resource context. However, the best strategy to decide which cross-lingual data to include is unclear. Prior research often focuses on a small set of languages from a few language families or a single task. It is still …

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Unlocking the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) on AWS

We’ve witnessed remarkable advances in model capabilities as generative AI companies have invested in developing their offerings. Language models such as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 & Sonnet 4 and Amazon Nova on Amazon Bedrock can reason, write, and generate responses with increasing sophistication. But even as these models grow more powerful, they can only work …

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Emulating the air-gapped experience: GDC Sandbox is now generally available

Many organizations in regulated industries and the public sector that want to start using generative AI face significant challenges in adopting cloud-based AI solutions due to stringent regulatory mandates, sovereignty requirements, the need for low-latency processing, and the sheer scale of their on-premises data. Together, these can all present institutional blockers to AI adoption, and …