This April, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS, announced Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan models as part of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock, currently available in preview, is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from Amazon and leading AI startups—such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, and Stability AI—available through an API. Today, I’m excited to announce the preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new capability for developers to create fully managed agents in a few clicks. Agents for Amazon Bedrock accelerate the delivery of generative AI applications that can manage and perform tasks by making API calls to your company systems. Agents extend FMs to…
Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023
It’ll be a full house as the AWS Summit gets underway in New York City on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. The cloud event has something for everyone including a keynote, breakout sessions, opportunities to network, and of course, to learn about the latest exciting AWS product announcements. Today, we’re sharing a selection of announcements to get the fun started. We’ll also share major updates from Wednesday’s keynote, so check back for more exciting news to come soon. If you want to attend the event virtually, you can still register for the keynote livestream. (This post was last updated: 5:35 p.m. PST, July 25, 2023.) AWS product announcements from July 25, 2023 Introducing AWS HealthImaging — purpose-built for medical imaging at…
7 tech tools I use for hiking, backpacking and camping
Try these seven Google tech tips to prepare for your next hiking, camping or backpacking trip. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/hiking-camping-backpacking-google-tools/
AWS Week in Review – Redshift+Forecast, CodeCatalyst+GitHub, Lex Analytics, Llama 2, and Much More – July 24, 2023
Summer is in full swing here in Seattle and we are spending more time outside and less at the keyboard. Nevertheless, the launch machine is running at full speed and I have plenty to share with you today. Let’s dive in and take a look! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my eye: Amazon Redshift – Amazon Redshift ML can now make use of an integrated connection to Amazon Forecast. You can now use SQL statements of the form CREATE MODEL to create and train forecasting models from your time series data stored in Redshift, and then use these models to make forecasts for revenue, inventory, demand, and so forth. You can also define probability metrics and…