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Today, we’re incredibly proud to announce the graduation of the latest cohort from the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First from Europe & Israel! This milestone marks the culmination of an intensive three-months journey for these 14 innovative startups, who’ve dedicated themselves to growing their businesses and pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence. The hybrid …

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This is a joint post co-authored with Harsh Vardhan, Global Head, Digital Innovation Hub, Apollo Tyres Ltd. Apollo Tyres, headquartered in Gurgaon, India, is a prominent international tire manufacturer with production facilities in India and Europe. The company advertises its products under its two global brands: Apollo and Vredestein, and its products are available in …

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Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are foundational to any Financial Services Institution’s (FSI) regulatory compliance practices and risk mitigation strategies. KYC is how financial institutions verify the identity of their customers and assess associated risks. But as customers expect instant approvals, FSIs face pressure to streamline their manual, time-consuming and error-prone KYC processes.  The good …

Read more “Build a multi-agent KYC workflow in three steps using Google’s Agent Development Kit and Gemini”

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports Qwen models. You can now import custom weights for Qwen2, Qwen2_VL, and Qwen2_5_VL architectures, including models like Qwen 2, 2.5 Coder, Qwen 2.5 VL, and QwQ 32B. You can bring your own customized Qwen models into Amazon Bedrock and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment—without having to …

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As AI moves from promising experiments to landing core business impact, the most critical question is no longer “What can it do?” but “How well does it do it?”.  Ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of your AI applications is a strategic imperative. To guide you, evaluation must be your North Star—a constant process that …

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Editor’s Note: This blog post highlights Palantir’s response to a Request for Information from the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Privacy Working Group, which is exploring the creation of a national data privacy law. For more information about Palantir’s contributions to AI Policy, visit our website here. Introduction In April, Palantir submitted a response to a …

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This post was co-written with Renato Nascimento, Felipe Viana, Andre Von Zuben from Articul8. Generative AI is reshaping industries, offering new efficiencies, automation, and innovation. However, generative AI requires powerful, scalable, and resilient infrastructures that optimize large-scale model training, providing rapid iteration and efficient compute utilization with purpose-built infrastructure and automated cluster management. In this …

Read more “Accelerating Articul8’s domain-specific model development with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod”