Do Large Language Models Have an English Accent? Evaluating and Improving the Naturalness of Multilingual LLMs

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are predominantly designed with English as the primary language, and even the few that are multilingual tend to exhibit strong English-centric biases. Much like speakers who might produce awkward expressions when learning a second language, LLMs often generate unnatural outputs in non-English languages, reflecting English-centric patterns in both vocabulary and …

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Set up a custom plugin on Amazon Q Business and authenticate with Amazon Cognito to interact with backend systems

Businesses are constantly evolving, and leaders are challenged every day to meet new requirements and are seeking ways to optimize their operations and gain a competitive edge. One of the key challenges they face is managing the complexity of disparate business systems and workflows, which leads to inefficiencies, data silos, and missed opportunities. Generative AI …

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Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This capability increases developer and analysts’ productivity and empowers non-technical users to interact directly with the data they need. …

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How Apoidea Group enhances visual information extraction from banking documents with multimodal models using LLaMA-Factory on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

This post is co-written with Ken Tsui, Edward Tsoi and Mickey Yip from Apoidea Group. The banking industry has long struggled with the inefficiencies associated with repetitive processes such as information extraction, document review, and auditing. These tasks, which require significant human resources, slow down critical operations such as Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures, loan …

Expanding our Risk Protection Program with new insurance partners and AI coverage

Today’s businesses have a vital need to manage and, when appropriate, transfer cyber risk in their cloud environments — even with robust security measures in place. At Google Cloud Next last month, we unveiled significant advancements to our Risk Protection Program, an industry-first collaboration between Google and leading cyber insurers that provides competitively priced cyber-insurance …

How to Become Immortal Using AI?

We all leave traces behind: emails, text messages, photos, voice notes. But what if you could go one step further? What if your loved ones could still talk to you after you’re gone? Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, digital immortality is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It’s becoming technically possible to create custom AIs …

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Cost-effective AI image generation with PixArt-Σ inference on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia

PixArt-Sigma is a diffusion transformer model that is capable of image generation at 4k resolution. This model shows significant improvements over previous generation PixArt models like Pixart-Alpha and other diffusion models through dataset and architectural improvements. AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia are purpose-built AI chips to accelerate machine learning (ML) workloads, making them ideal for …

Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents

According to DORA’s latest research – the Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report – AI tools are making software developers feel more productive, focused, and satisfied. They’re even writing better code and documentation more quickly. But the research uncovered a paradox: these individual gains do not translate directly into improved system-level performance. In …

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Securing Amazon Bedrock Agents: A guide to safeguarding against indirect prompt injections

Generative AI tools have transformed how we work, create, and process information. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our top priority. Therefore, Amazon Bedrock provides comprehensive security controls and best practices to help protect your applications and data. In this post, we explore the security measures and practical strategies provided by Amazon Bedrock Agents …