Amazon Titan Text V2 now available in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for improving RAG

The Amazon Titan family of models, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock, is built on top of 25 years of Amazon expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advancements. Amazon Titan foundation models (FMs) offer a comprehensive suite of pre-trained image, multimodal, and text models accessible through a fully managed API. Trained on extensive datasets, Amazon Titan models are powerful and versatile, designed for a range of applications while adhering to responsible AI practices. The latest addition to the Amazon Titan family is Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2, the second-generation text embeddings model from Amazon now available within Amazon Bedrock. This new text embeddings model is optimized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It is pre-trained on 100+ languages and on…

Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With Amazon Q Business, you can deploy a secure, private, generative AI assistant that empowers your organization’s users to be more creative, data-driven, efficient, prepared, and productive. During the preview, we heard lots of customer feedback and used that feedback to prioritize our enhancements to the service. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Business with many new features, including custom plugins, and a preview of Amazon Q Apps, generative AI–powered customized and sharable applications using natural language in a…

Amazon Q Developer, now generally available, includes new capabilities to reimagine developer experience

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Q Developer as a preview last year, it changed my experience of interacting with AWS services and, at the same time, maximizing the potential of AWS services on a daily basis. Trained on 17 years of AWS knowledge and experience, this generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant helps me build applications on AWS, research best practices, perform troubleshooting, and resolve errors. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Developer. In this announcement, we have a few updates, including new capabilities. Let’s get started. New: Amazon Q Developer has knowledge of your AWS account resources This new capability helps you understand and manage your cloud infrastructure on AWS. With this capability,…

Run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+, now available in Amazon Bedrock

In November 2023, we made two new Cohere models available in Amazon Bedrock (Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English). Today, we’re announcing the addition of two more Cohere models in Amazon Bedrock; Cohere Command R and Command R+. Organizations need generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) models to securely interact with information stored in their enterprise data sources. Both Command R and Command R+ are powerful, scalable large language models (LLMs), purpose-built for real-world, enterprise-grade workloads. These models are multilingual and are focused on balancing high efficiency with strong accuracy to excel at capabilities such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and tool use to enable enterprises to move beyond proof-of-concept (POC), and into production using artificial intelligence (AI). Command R is…