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Prompting for the best price-performance

In the drive to remain competitive, businesses today are turning to AI to help them minimize cost and maximize efficiency. It’s incumbent on them to find the most suitable AI model—the one that will help them achieve more while spending less. For many businesses, the migration from OpenAI’s model family to Amazon Nova represents not …

Google’s AI Dreamer learns how to self-improve over time by mastering Minecraft

A trio of AI researchers at Google’s Google DeepMind, working with a colleague from the University of Toronto, report that the AI algorithm Dreamer can learn to self-improve by mastering Minecraft in a short amount of time. In their study published in the journal Nature, Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Timothy Lillicrap and Jimmy Ba programmed …

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How AWS Sales uses generative AI to streamline account planning

Every year, AWS Sales personnel draft in-depth, forward looking strategy documents for established AWS customers. These documents help the AWS Sales team to align with our customer growth strategy and to collaborate with the entire sales team on long-term growth ideas for AWS customers. These documents are internally called account plans (APs). In 2024, this …

Interpreting and Improving Optimal Control Problems With Directional Corrections

Many robotics tasks, such as path planning or trajectory optimization, are formulated as optimal control problems (OCPs). The key to obtaining high performance lies in the design of the OCP’s objective function. In practice, the objective function consists of a set of individual components that must be carefully modeled and traded off such that the …