For more than a century, meteorologists have chased storms with chalkboards, equations, and now, supercomputers. But for all the progress, they still stumble over one deceptively simple ingredient: water vapor. Humidity is the invisible fuel for thunderstorms, flash floods, and hurricanes. It’s the difference between a passing sprinkle and a summer downpour that sends you …
Our novel Deep Loop Shaping method improves control of gravitational wave observatories, helping astronomers better understand the dynamics and formation of the universe.
Although careful prompt crafting can yield good results, achieving professional-grade visual consistency often requires adapting the underlying model itself. Building on the prompt engineering and character development approach covered in Part 1 of this two-part series, we now push the consistency level for specific characters by fine-tuning an Amazon Nova Canvas foundation model (FM). Through …
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Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers, Baseten has just passed a significant milestone. By leveraging the latest Google Cloud A4 virtual machines (VMs) based on NVIDIA Blackwell, and …
Read more “How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)”
Since its general availability in 2024, Amazon Q Business (Amazon Q) has enabled independent software vendors (ISVs) to enhance their Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions through secure access to customers’ enterprise data by becoming Amazon Q Business data accessor. To find out more on data accessor, see this page. The data accessor now supports …
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Editor’s note: Target set out to modernize its digital search experience to better match guest expectations and support more intuitive discovery across millions of products. To meet that challenge, they rebuilt their platform with hybrid search powered by filtered vector queries and AlloyDB AI. The result: a faster, smarter, more resilient search experience that’s already …
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Training and deploying large AI models requires advanced distributed computing capabilities, but managing these distributed systems shouldn’t be complex for data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners. The newly released command line interface (CLI) and software development kit (SDK) for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod simplify how you can use the service’s distributed training and inference capabilities. …
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The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon is officially wrapped. The hackathon wrapped up with over 10,400 participants from 62 countries, resulting in 477 submitted projects and over 1,500 agents built! Building on the excitement from our initial announcement, the hackathon proved to be an invaluable opportunity for developers to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and build …
This post was co-written with Nick Frichette and Vijay George from Datadog. As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Bedrock for generative AI applications, protecting against misconfigurations that could lead to data leaks or unauthorized model access becomes critical. The AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, revealed that 45% …
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This post is co-written with Julieta Rappan, Macarena Blasi, and María Candela Blanco from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The Government of the City of Buenos Aires continuously works to improve citizen services. In February 2019, it introduced an AI assistant named Boti available through WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging service …