Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Llama 2 inference and fine-tuning support on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Using AWS Trainium and Inferentia based instances, through SageMaker, can help users lower fine-tuning costs by up to 50%, and lower deployment costs by 4.7x, while lowering per token latency. …
Recent advances in deep learning and automatic speech recognition have boosted the accuracy of end-to-end speech recognition to a new level. However, recognition of personal content such as contact names remains a challenge. In this work, we present a personalization solution for an end-to-end system based on connectionist temporal classification. Our solution uses class-based language …
We funded 10 teams from around the world to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI. We summarize the innovations, outline our learnings, and call for researchers and engineers to join us as we continue this work.
Beyond the traditional challenges of today’s markets, many organizations must also address the challenges of real estate and facilities management. These issues include managing rising real estate costs, increasing lease rates, new sustainability goals and under-utilized hybrid work environments. Successfully managing your facilities can directly impact employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Facilities management plays …
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OpenAI Whisper is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with an MIT license. ASR technology finds utility in transcription services, voice assistants, and enhancing accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. This state-of-the-art model is trained on a vast and diverse dataset of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. Its high accuracy …
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Indigenous languages are under threat. Some 3,000 — three-quarters of the total — could disappear before the end of the century, or one every two weeks, according to UNESCO. As part of a movement to protect such languages, New Zealand’s Te Hiku Media, a broadcaster focused on the Maori people’s indigenous language known as te …
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We’re working to prevent abuse, provide transparency on AI-generated content, and improve access to accurate voting information.
While digital transformation has been a trend for some years, emerging technologies have made this movement even more important. Companies are rethinking their business models to become more digital and competitive. They face an ever-increasing cadre of startups and established organizations, all of whom are also trying to keep up to date on digital transformation …
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