Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Llama 2 inference and fine-tuning support on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Using AWS Trainium and Inferentia based instances, through SageMaker, can help users lower fine-tuning costs by up to 50%, and lower deployment costs by 4.7x, while lowering per token latency. …
DataStax unveils a new data API to simplify the creation of generative AI RAG applications, enhancing developer accessibility and optimizing performance with native vector database features.Read More
Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.
What is the likelihood of dying in a plane crash? According to a 2022 report released by the International Air Transport Association, the industry fatality risk is 0.11. In other words, on average, a person would need to take a flight every day for 25,214 years to have a 100 percent chance of experiencing a …
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Recent advances in deep learning and automatic speech recognition have boosted the accuracy of end-to-end speech recognition to a new level. However, recognition of personal content such as contact names remains a challenge. In this work, we present a personalization solution for an end-to-end system based on connectionist temporal classification. Our solution uses class-based language …
We funded 10 teams from around the world to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI. We summarize the innovations, outline our learnings, and call for researchers and engineers to join us as we continue this work.
Beyond the traditional challenges of today’s markets, many organizations must also address the challenges of real estate and facilities management. These issues include managing rising real estate costs, increasing lease rates, new sustainability goals and under-utilized hybrid work environments. Successfully managing your facilities can directly impact employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Facilities management plays …
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OpenAI Whisper is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with an MIT license. ASR technology finds utility in transcription services, voice assistants, and enhancing accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. This state-of-the-art model is trained on a vast and diverse dataset of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. Its high accuracy …
Read more “Host the Whisper Model on Amazon SageMaker: exploring inference options”