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GCP – Building Conversational Genomics
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AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models
Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning, helping you improve model accuracy without needing deep machine learning expertise or large sums of labeled data. Amazon Bedrock automates the reinforcement fine-tuning workflow, making this advanced model customization technique accessible to everyday developers. Models learn to align with your specific requirements using a small set of prompts rather […]
AWS – Introducing elastic training on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports elastic training, enabling organizations to accelerate foundation model training by automatically scaling training workloads based on resource availability and workload priorities. This represents a fundamental shift from training with a fixed set of resources, as it saves hours of engineering time spent reconfiguring training jobs based on compute availability. Any […]
GCP – GKE Turns 10 Hackathon: Announcing the winners and highlights
The GKE Turns 10 Hackathon was an electrifying showcase of developer ingenuity! Building on the excitement from our initial announcement, the hackathon challenged participants to build powerful AI agents that interact with microservice applications using the robustness of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and the intelligence of Google AI models like Gemini. The goal was to […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview)
Starting today, new general purpose high-frequency high-network Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8azn instances are available for preview. These instances are powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC (formerly code named Turin) processors, offering the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. The M8azn instances offer up to 2x compute performance versus previous generation […]
GCP – Decoding high-bandwidth memory: A practical guide to GPU memory for fine-tuning AI models
We’ve all been there. You’ve meticulously prepared your dataset and written your training script. You hit run, and your excitement builds, only to be crushed by the infamous error: CUDA out of memory. This is one of the most common roadblocks in AI development. Your GPU’s High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), is the high-speed memory that […]
AWS – Announcing the Apache Spark upgrade agent for Amazon EMR
AWS announces the Apache Spark upgrade agent, a new capability that accelerates Apache Spark version upgrades for Amazon EMR on EC2 and EMR Serverless. The agent converts complex upgrade processes that typically take months into projects spanning weeks through automated code analysis and transformation. Organizations invest substantial engineering resources analyzing API changes, resolving conflicts, and […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances (Preview)
Amazon Web Services is announcing the preview of Amazon EC2 X8i, next-generation Memory optimized instances. X8i instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors delivering the highest performance and fastest memory among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. X8i instances offer 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB) , and up to 3.4x more […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
Amazon S3 Storage Lens provides organization-wide visibility into your storage usage and activity to help optimize costs, improve performance, and strengthen data protection. Today, we are adding three new capabilities to S3 Storage Lens that give you deeper insights into your S3 storage usage and application performance: performance metrics that provide insights into how your […]
AWS – Announcing new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz Instances
AWS announces Amazon EC2 X8aedz, next generation memory optimized instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. They deliver up to 2x higher compute performance and 31% price-performance compared to previous generation X2iezn instances. X8aedz instances are built using […]