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Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

xAI’s Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, adding a frontier model built for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge…

2 weeks ago

Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIs

Every week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market…

2 weeks ago

Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute

By Dhruv PratapIntroductionOrganizations that have been around for a while usually run two identity systems side by side. One belongs to…

2 weeks ago

Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput

When you post-train a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)…

2 weeks ago

Best practices guide for customizing Gemini models via Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to…

2 weeks ago

Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation

System-wide Dictation on Apple devices runs entirely on-device, and the speech it transcribes reaches the foundation model through a tokenizer:…

2 weeks ago

Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI

Any team working with spoken audio hits the same wall with generic speech-to-text. Think contact-center calls, all-hands meetings, podcasts, depositions,…

2 weeks ago

Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available

Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share…

2 weeks ago

How to Guide Your Language Flow

We introduce a new method to guide flow matching models. Our approach, which we call probe guidance, uses the frozen…

2 weeks ago

From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Mauro Rallo and Patrick van der Plas from HEMA. When engineers at HEMA needed an…

2 weeks ago