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Customize Amazon Nova in Amazon SageMaker AI using Direct Preference Optimization

At the AWS Summit in New York City, we introduced a comprehensive suite of model customization capabilities for Amazon Nova foundation models. Available as ready-to-use recipes on Amazon SageMaker AI, you can use them to adapt Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova Pro across the model training lifecycle, including pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and alignment. In this …

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Beyond accelerators: Lessons from building foundation models on AWS with Japan’s GENIAC program

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 cycle (cycle 2). It provided infrastructure …