Yesterday at the Amazon Web Services’ annual RE: Invent Conference, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Amazon Nova, a new generation of advanced foundation models providing Frontier Intelligence and Industry-Founding Award performance. The Amazon NOVA models include understanding models of three different sizes for different latency, costs and accuracy needs. We also announced two new generation of … Read more
One of the ways Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps customers stay secure in their cloud is with the AWS Security Hub, which aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security alerts from AWS services and third-party tools. These alerts are based on security controls – rules that help ensure the services are configured securely and in accordance with … Read more
From left to right: David Luan, VP of Autonomy and Head of Amazon’s AGI SF Lab, and Pieter Abbeel, Amazon Scholar, Robotics. Today, we are excited to announce the formation of the Amazon AGI SF Lab, a new dedicated team based in San Francisco. The initial focus of our lab will be to develop new … Read more
The 2024 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips)-the first conference in artificial intelligence-begins today, and the Amazon papers that were accepted there show the breadth of the company’s AI research. Large Language Models (LLMs) and other basic models have dominated the field for the past few years, and Amazon’s papers reflect this trend that … Read more
Whether collected through employee surveys, product feedback channels, voice-to-customer mechanisms, or other unstructured text sources, qualitative data offers invaluable insights that can complement and contextualize quantitative business intelligence. However, the manual effort required to analyze large volumes of open-ended responses has limited access to these insights. Topic modeling approaches such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), … Read more
Most of today’s cutting-edge AI models are based on the transformer architecture, which is characterized by its use of an attention mechanism. In a large language model (LLM), for example, the transformer determines which words in the text string should be given special attention when generating the next word; in a vision language model, it … Read more
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies give customers fine-grained control over who has access to which resources in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This control helps customers enforce the principle of least privilege by granting only the necessary permissions to perform certain tasks. In practice, however, it requires customers to understand what permissions … Read more
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funding and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating diverse research topics across multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA received many outstanding research proposals and today publicly announces 10 awardees representing 10 universities. This announcement includes awards funded under three calls for proposals during the Winter 2024 and Spring 2024 … Read more
Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading language technology. Our mission is to provide Amazon customers with a delightful experience by pushing the boundaries of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Large Language Model (LLM), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning … Read more
Users of the Box intelligent content management platform can now use Amazon Bedrock to build applications with their data and foundational models, starting with Anthropic’s Claude and Amazon Titan. This capability, which was made generally available Thursday (Oct. 24), is the result of a recently expanded strategic partnership between Box and AWS, the companies said … Read more