Building full virtual vehicles on Google Cloud: From AAOS to the smallest MCU

Imagining traditional gearheads getting their hands on software-defined vehicles is an amusing thought experiment. With their socket wrenches and air compressors at the ready, they might be confused to encounter core functions more likely to run on 1s and 0s than oil and belts. But across the auto industry these days, more and more vehicles …

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Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models

NVIDIA today released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model that delivers the fastest task completion and highest accuracy for specialized always-on agents. Joining it are two new edge models: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, optimized to balance intelligence and speed per GB for local agentic workloads, and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, optimized …

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Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Prasanna Vijayanathan, Renzo Sanchez-Silva When Jake Paul and Mike Tyson stepped into the ring in November 2024, we delivered the fight to roughly 65 million concurrent streams. On an ordinary day our infrastructure takes in more than 2 billion requests and handles upwards of 38 million real-time logging events every second. At that scale, the …

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Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The North Star Every organization racing to deploy AI agents faces the same reckoning: an agent that demos beautifully can quietly degrade in production, and by the time a human notices, the trust is already broken. Where traditional software fails loudly, agents fail softly. They return an answer that looks confident, reads fluently, and is …

Architecting autonomy: A design pattern for high-compute, governed agents in biotech

In production systems today, most AI agents operate as lightweight dispatchers. They parse a prompt, make an API call, retrieve a record, and hand back control. Their execution is fast, stateless and cheap. Biotechnology does not work this way.  Folding a protein target, screening a 50,000 compound ligand library, or evaluating structure-activity relationships (SAR) are …

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Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Muse Spark Open, Meta’s coding-optimized open-weight model, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, the machine learning (ML) hub of Amazon SageMaker AI. The model was trained on real developer workflows, such as multi-file refactors and long debugging sessions, and it supports a context window of 1 million tokens. You can deploy it to a …

The Design Space of Tri-Modal Masked Diffusion Models

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, with recent work initializing and finetuning a base unimodal model for bi-modal generation. Diverging from previous approaches, we introduce the first tri-modal Masked Diffusion Models (MDM) pretrained from scratch on text, image-text, and audio-text data. We systematically analyze multimodal scaling laws, modality mixing …

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Integrating Netflix’s Foundation Model into Personalization applications

Authors: Divya Gadde, Ko-Jen Hsiao, Dhaval Patel and Moumita Bhattacharya The motivation for building the Netflix Foundation Model for personalization was laid out in this previous blog post. The Netflix homepage is powered by several specialized models and it requires significant time and resources to maintain and continue innovating on these individual models. Therefore, we …