Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making significant strides in the realm of generative artificial intelligence (AI), unveiling a host of groundbreaking innovations that underscore its commitment to cutting-edge technology.
At the annual AWS Summit held in New York, Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of database, analytics, and ML at AWS, highlighted the growing influence of generative AI. He noted, "Generative AI has captured our imagination for its ability to create images and videos, write stories and generate code."
Breaking New Ground
AWS is amplifying its offerings with a noteworthy expansion of its fully managed foundation model (FM) service for Amazon Bedrock. This enhancement introduces Cohere as an FM provider, showcasing models like Command and Embed. Moreover, the latest foundation models from Anthropic (Claude 2) and Stability AI (Stable Diffusion XL 1.0) are now integrated, accompanied by an innovative feature allowing the creation of fully managed agents with just a few clicks, making it accessible for builders without requiring additional expertise.
The introduction of AWS HealthScribe, a HIPAA-eligible service, is poised to revolutionize healthcare software. This service empowers healthcare software developers to craft clinical applications employing speech recognition and generative AI. AWS HealthScribe, driven by Amazon Bedrock, aims to streamline clinical documentation, facilitating faster integration of generative AI capabilities for healthcare software providers. This feature eases the incorporation of generative AI into applications, commencing with general medicine and orthopedics, without the burden of managing the underlying ML infrastructure or training healthcare-specific Large Language Models (LLMs).
Empowering Skill Development
AWS is forward-looking in its approach to talent development, acknowledging the need for upskilling as generative AI continues to evolve. To address this, AWS has unveiled seven free and cost-effective on-demand training series designed to equip a wider audience with the knowledge, tools and capabilities to grasp, implement and utilize generative AI.
Leading the Way With NVIDIA
As a pioneering hyperscale cloud provider, AWS is setting a precedent by making NVIDIA's H100 GPUs available for general production use. Amazon EC2 P5 instances, fueled by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, along with AWS's state-of-the-art networking and scalability, are now accessible for general use. These instances are ideally suited for the rigorous demands of training and running inference for complex Large Language Models (LLMs) in compute-intensive generative AI applications, such as question answering, code generation, video and image creation, and speech recognition.
In essence, AWS's strategic focus on harnessing the potential of generative AI marks a significant leap forward in its commitment to innovation and technology leadership, solidifying its place at the forefront of the industry.
