AWS Reinvent 2023
Amazon’s biggest AWS-focused event of the year was particularly focused on AI in 2023, which comes as no surprise given the challenge posed to the company by competitors looking to get a leg up by leveraging AI. The company both critiqued competition from Google and OpenAI, while touting its own new image generation tools, AI-powered chat assistant and more.
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AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more
We will deliver quick hits of the biggest news from AWS re:Invent as they are announced.
Good old-fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs
Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task…
Amazon finds itself in the unusual position of playing catch-up in AI
“This might be the first time where people looked and said that Amazon isn’t in the pole position to capitalize on this massive opportunity.”
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and FemTech
By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his…
With Neptune Analytics, AWS combines the power of vector search and graph data
There’s been a debate of sorts in AI circles about which database is more important in finding truthful information in generative AI applications: graph or vector databases. AWS decided to…
AWS Clean Rooms ML lets companies securely collaborate on AI
Amazon’s launching (in preview) a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations. Called Clean Rooms ML — an offshoot of AWS’ existing…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod makes it easier to train and fine-tune LLMs
At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageMaker HyperPod is…
Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator at AWS re:Invent 2023
Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so. During a keynote at its AWS…
The rise of generative AI opens up a massive new market for the large cloud providers, but it’s also a bit of a reset. Unlike the rise of containers, for…
Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses at AWS re:Invent
Amazon is launching an AI-powered chatbot for AWS customers called Q. Unveiled during a keynote at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this morning, Q — starting at $20…
We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models, and finding ways to constrain the answers…
There’s a shortage of GPUs as the demand for generative AI, which is often trained and run on GPUs, grows. Nvidia’s best-performing chips are reportedly sold out until 2024. The CEO…
AWS launches S3 Express One Zone, promises 10x write speed improvement
At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service: AWS S3 Express One Zone, a new…
AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise
Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises. The announcement…
Amazon announces three new serverless offerings to kick off AWS re:Invent 2023
Amazon kicked off AWS re:Invent, its annual customer conference, in Las Vegas tonight with a few new serverless offerings designed to make it easier to manage Aurora, ElastiCache and Redshift…
Amazon’s new $195 thin client looks just like a Fire TV Cube
Amazon’s new thin client looks just like a Fire TV Cube… and that’s by design. At its AWS re:Ignite conference, the company this morning announced the launch of new $195…
