Hands on with the Pixel 8a, Google’s newest addition to the Pixel lineup. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-8a-hands-on-test/
Month: May 2024
AWS Weekly Roundup: New capabilities in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Amplify Gen 2, Amazon RDS and more (May 13, 2024)
AWS Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), security, generative AI, and more. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that caught my attention. Not surprisingly, a lot of interesting generative AI features! Amazon Titan Text Premier is now available in Amazon Bedrock – This is the latest addition to the Amazon Titan family of large language models (LLMs) and offers optimized performance for key features like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) on Knowledge Bases for Amazon…
A new generative engine and three voices are now generally available on Amazon Polly
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the generative engine of Amazon Polly with three voices: Ruth and Matthew in American English and Amy in British English. The new generative engine was trained with publicly available and proprietary data, a variety of voices, languages, and styles. It performs with the highest precision to render context-dependent prosody, pausing, spelling, dialectal properties, foreign word pronunciation, and more. Amazon Polly is a machine learning (ML) service that converts text to lifelike speech, called text-to-speech (TTS) technology. Now, Amazon Polly includes high-quality, natural-sounding human-like voices in dozens of languages, so you can select the ideal voice and distribute your speech-enabled applications in many locales or countries. With Amazon Polly, you can select various…
Build RAG and agent-based generative AI applications with new Amazon Titan Text Premier model, available in Amazon Bedrock
Today, we’re happy to welcome a new member of the Amazon Titan family of models: Amazon Titan Text Premier, now available in Amazon Bedrock. Following Amazon Titan Text Lite and Titan Text Express, Titan Text Premier is the latest large language model (LLM) in the Amazon Titan family of models, further increasing your model choice within Amazon Bedrock. You can now choose between the following Titan Text models in Bedrock: Titan Text Premier is the most advanced Titan LLM for text-based enterprise applications. With a maximum context length of 32K tokens, it has been specifically optimized for enterprise use cases, such as building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent-based applications with Knowledge Bases and Agents for Amazon Bedrock. As with…