The next wave of payments modernization: Minimizing complexity to elevate customer experience

The payments ecosystem is at an inflection point for transformation, especially as we see the rise of disruptive digital entrants who are introducing new payment methods, such as cryptocurrency and central bank digital currencies (CDBC). With more choices for customers, capturing share of wallet is becoming more competitive for traditional banks. This is just one …

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Orchestrate Ray-based machine learning workflows using Amazon SageMaker

Machine learning (ML) is becoming increasingly complex as customers try to solve more and more challenging problems. This complexity often leads to the need for distributed ML, where multiple machines are used to train a single model. Although this enables parallelization of tasks across multiple nodes, leading to accelerated training times, enhanced scalability, and improved …

Ray Shines With NVIDIA AI: Anyscale Collaboration to Help Developers Build, Tune, Train and Scale Production LLMs

Large language model development is about to reach supersonic speed thanks to a collaboration between NVIDIA and Anyscale. At its annual Ray Summit developers conference, Anyscale — the company behind the fast growing open-source unified compute framework for scalable computing —  announced today that it is bringing NVIDIA AI to Ray open source and the …

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Help Shape Our Conference Agenda & Win Prizes

Hew there! As we gear up for the much-anticipated Chatbot Conference this November, we find ourselves constantly driven by one central purpose: to serve the vibrant community of professionals, enthusiasts, and enterprises navigating the rich landscape of Conversational AI and LLMs. This year, we’re taking a collaborative approach to curating our conference agenda, and who better …

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MediaPipe FaceStylizer: On-device real-time few-shot face stylization

Posted by Haolin Jia, Software Engineer, and Qifei Wang, Senior Software Engineer, Core ML In recent years, we have witnessed rising interest across consumers and researchers in integrated augmented reality (AR) experiences using real-time face feature generation and editing functions in mobile applications, including short videos, virtual reality, and gaming. As a result, there is …

Securely record SSH sessions on RHEL in a private VPC network

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to record SSH sessions on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VSI in a private VPC network using in-built packages. The VPC private network is provisioned through Terraform and the RHEL packages are installed using Ansible automation. Additionally, you’ll learn how to set up a highly available bastion …

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MediaPipe FaceStylizer: On-device real-time few-shot face stylization

Posted by Haolin Jia, Software Engineer, and Qifei Wang, Senior Software Engineer, Core ML In recent years, we have witnessed rising interest across consumers and researchers in integrated augmented reality (AR) experiences using real-time face feature generation and editing functions in mobile applications, including short videos, virtual reality, and gaming. As a result, there is …

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Learn how to build and deploy tool-using LLM agents using AWS SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models

Large language model (LLM) agents are programs that extend the capabilities of standalone LLMs with 1) access to external tools (APIs, functions, webhooks, plugins, and so on), and 2) the ability to plan and execute tasks in a self-directed fashion. Often, LLMs need to interact with other software, databases, or APIs to accomplish complex tasks. …

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Applying Generative AI to product design with BigQuery DataFrames

For any company, naming a product or service is complex and time-consuming. This process is particularly challenging in the pharmaceutical industry. Typically, companies start by brainstorming and researching thousands of names. They must ensure that the names are unique, compliant with regulations, and easy to pronounce and remember. With so many factors to consider, multiplied …

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On-device content distillation with graph neural networks

Posted by Gabriel Barcik and Duc-Hieu Tran, Research Engineers, Google Research In today’s digital age, smartphones and desktop web browsers serve as the primary tools for accessing news and information. However, the proliferation of website clutter — encompassing complex layouts, navigation elements, and extraneous links — significantly impairs both the reading experience and article navigation. …