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Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model with 20 billion parameters  (AlexaTM 20B) through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, SageMaker’s machine learning hub. AlexaTM 20B is a multilingual large-scale sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model developed by Amazon. You can use AlexaTM 20B for a wide range of industry use-cases, from summarizing financial reports …

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Yara is the world’s leading crop nutrition company and a provider of environmental and agricultural solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature-positive food future that creates value for customers, shareholders, and society at large, and delivers a more sustainable food value chain. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger and a planet …

Read more “How Yara is using MLOps features of Amazon SageMaker to scale energy optimization across their ammonia plants”

Image classification is a computer vision-based machine learning (ML) technique that allows you to classify images. Some well-known examples of image classification include classifying handwritten digits, medical image classification, and facial recognition. Image classification is a useful technique with several business applications, but building a good image classification model isn’t trivial. Several considerations can play …

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Organizations are using machine learning (ML) and AI services to enhance customer experience, reduce operational cost, and unlock new possibilities to improve business outcomes. Data underpins ML and AI use cases and is a strategic asset to an organization. As data is growing at an exponential rate, organizations are looking to set up an integrated, …

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What would tech support be like if an AI agent could recommend the right self-service article before a human support agent even got on the ticket? At Google we wanted to find out. So we got our machine learning teams working on ways to suggest support documentation automatically integrated into our ticketing system, before human …

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AI-generated art has arrived. With a presentation making its debut this week at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City — perhaps the world’s premier institution devoted to modern and contemporary art — the AI technologies that have upended trillion-dollar industries worldwide over the past decade will get a formal introduction. Created by …

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Posted by Yanqi Zhou, Research Scientist, Google Research Brain Team The capacity of a neural network to absorb information is limited by the number of its parameters, and as a consequence, finding more effective ways to increase model parameters has become a trend in deep learning research. Mixture-of-experts (MoE), a type of conditional computation where …

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A well-designed CI/CD pipeline is essential to scale any software development workflow effectively. When designing production CI/CD pipelines, AWS recommends leveraging multiple accounts to isolate resources, contain security threats and simplify billing-and data science pipelines are no different. At AWS, we’re continuing to innovate to simplify the MLOps workflow. In this post, we discuss some …

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Today, many AWS customers are building enterprise-ready machine learning (ML) platforms on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) using Kubeflow on AWS (an AWS-specific distribution of Kubeflow) across many use cases, including computer vision, natural language understanding, speech translation, and financial modeling. With the latest release of open-source Kubeflow v1.6.1, the Kubeflow community continues to …

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According to an article by Cybersecurity Ventures, the damage caused by Ransomware (a type of malware that can block users from accessing their data unless they pay a ransom) increased by 57 times in 2021 as compared to 2015. Furthermore, it’s predicted to cost its victims $265 billion (USD) annually by 2031. At the time …

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