Category: FAANG

Amazon Rekognition is a computer vision service that makes it simple to add image and video analysis to your applications using proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology that does not require machine learning (ML) expertise. With Amazon Rekognition, you can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos and detect inappropriate content. …

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Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses statistical and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time-series forecasts. Recently, based on Amazon Forecast, we helped one of our retail customers achieve accurate demand forecasting, within 8 weeks. The solution improved the manual forecast by an average of 10% in regards to the …

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Enterprises often need to communicate effectively to a large base of customers, partners, and stakeholders across several different languages. They need to translate and localize content such as marketing materials, product content assets, operational manuals, and legal documents. Each business unit in the enterprise has different translation workloads and often manages their own translation requirements …

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This is a guest blog post co-written with Minghui Yu and Jianzhe Xiao from Bytedance. ByteDance is a technology company that operates a range of content platforms to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Users trust and enjoy our content platforms because of the rich, intuitive, and safe experiences they …

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Companies that sell products or services online need to constantly monitor customer reviews left on their website after purchasing a product. The company’s marketing and customer service departments analyze these reviews to understand customer sentiment. For example, marketing could use this data to create campaigns targeting different customer segments. Customer service departments could use this …

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Amazon Rekognition offers pre-trained and customizable computer vision capabilities to extract information and insights from images and videos. One such capability is Amazon Rekognition Labels, which detects objects, scenes, actions, and concepts in images. Customers such as Synchronoss, Shutterstock, and Nomad Media use Amazon Rekognition Labels to automatically add metadata to their content library and …

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Now with Amazon Forecast, you can generate up to 45% more accurate forecasts for products with no historical data. Forecast is a managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any ML experience. Accurate forecasting is the foundation for inventory optimization, logistics planning, and workforce management and it enables …

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Organizations across industries such as retail, banking, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and lending often have to deal with vast amounts of unstructured text documents coming from various sources, such as news, blogs, product reviews, customer support channels, and social media. These documents contain critical information that’s key to making important business decisions. As an organization grows, …

Read more “Identify key insights from text documents through fine-tuning and HPO with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart”

Minerva CQ, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is making customer service calls quicker and more efficient for both agents and customers, with a focus on those in the energy sector. The NVIDIA Inception member’s name is a mashup of the Roman goddess of wisdom and knowledge — and collaborative intelligence (CQ), …

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