Today, we announce that the Pixtral Large 25.02 model is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering. AWS is the first major cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large as a fully managed, serverless model. Working with large foundation models (FMs) often requires significant infrastructure planning, specialized expertise, and ongoing optimization to handle the computational demands effectively. Many customers find themselves managing complex environments or making trade-offs between performance and cost when deploying these sophisticated models. The Pixtral Large model, developed by Mistral AI, represents their first multimodal model that combines advanced vision capabilities with powerful language understanding. A 128K context window makes it ideal for complex visual reasoning tasks. The model delivers exceptional performance on key…
Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications
Voice interfaces are essential to enhance customer experience in different areas such as customer support call automation, gaming, interactive education, and language learning. However, there are challenges when building voice-enabled applications. Traditional approaches in building voice-enabled applications require complex orchestration of multiple models, such as speech recognition to convert speech to text, language models to understand and generate responses, and text-to-speech to convert text back to audio. This fragmented approach not only increases development complexity but also fails to preserve crucial linguistic context such as tone, prosody, and speaking style that are essential for natural conversations. This can affect conversational AI applications that need low latency and nuanced understanding of verbal and non-verbal cues for fluid dialog handling and natural…
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enhances generative AI application safety with new capabilities
Since we launched Amazon Bedrock Guardrails over one year ago, customers like Grab, Remitly, KONE, and PagerDuty have used Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to standardize protections across their generative AI applications, bridge the gap between native model protections and enterprise requirements, and streamline governance processes. Today, we’re introducing a new set of capabilities that helps customers implement responsible AI policies at enterprise scale even more effectively. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails detects harmful multimodal content with up to 88% accuracy, filters sensitive information, and prevent hallucinations. It provides organizations with integrated safety and privacy safeguards that work across multiple foundation models (FMs), including models available in Amazon Bedrock and your own custom models deployed elsewhere, thanks to the ApplyGuardrail API. With Amazon Bedrock…
Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos
At re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Nova models, a new generation of foundation models (FMs), including Amazon Nova Reel, a video generation model that creates short videos from text descriptions and optional reference images (together, the “prompt”). Today, we introduce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation, compared to Amazon Nova Reel 1.0. This update lets you generate multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length with consistent style across shots. You can either provide a single prompt for up to a 2-minute video composed of 6-second shots, or design each shot individually with custom prompts. This gives you new ways to create video content through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Nova Reel enhances creative…