AWS re:Invent 2023: the biggest news and announcements – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2023-11-29T23:19:55+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/23742364 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Emilia David <![CDATA[Amazon will offer human benchmarking teams to test AI models]]> https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981129/amazon-aws-ai-model-evaluation-bias-toxicity 2023-11-29T18:19:55-05:00 2023-11-29T18:19:55-05:00

Amazon wants users to evaluate AI models better and encourage more humans to be involved in the process.

During the AWS re: Invent conference, AWS vice president of database, analytics, and machine learning Swami Sivasubramanian announced Model Evaluation on Bedrock, now available on preview, for models found in its repository Amazon Bedrock. Without a way to transparently test models, developers may end up using ones that are not accurate enough for a question-and-answer project or one that is too large for their use case.

"Model selection and evaluation is not just done at the beginning, but is something that's repeated periodically," S …

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]]> Emilia David <![CDATA[Amazon joins AI image creation fray with new model]]> https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23980697/amazon-ai-image-model-watermark-copyright 2023-11-29T12:25:11-05:00 2023-11-29T12:25:11-05:00
AWS vice president of database, analytics, and machine learning Swami Sivasubramanian in front of an image generated by Titan | Noah Berger

Amazon is joining the AI image generation fray with the release of its Titan text-to-image AI model. Announced during the AWS re:Invent conference, Titan Image Generator can create "realistic, studio-quality images" and is supposed to have built-in guardrails against toxicity and bias. Titan isn't a standalone app or website but a tool that developers can build on to make their own image generators powered by the model; to use it, developers will need access to Amazon Bedrock.

Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS vice president of database, analytics, and machine learning, previewed Titan Image Generator during his keynote, pointing to the model's ab …

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]]> Emilia David <![CDATA[Amazon’s Q AI assistant lets users ask questions about their company’s data]]> https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23980203/aws-amazon-query-generative-ai 2023-11-28T17:54:27-05:00 2023-11-28T17:54:27-05:00
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky | Noah Berger

Amazon's cloud business AWS launched a chat tool called Amazon Q, where businesses can ask questions specific to their companies.

Announced during a keynote speech by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Q acts like an AI assistant where users can ask questions about their businesses using their data. For example, employees can query Amazon Q on the company's latest guidelines for logo usage or understand another engineer's code to maintain an app. Q can surface the information instead of the employee sifting through dozens of documents.

Users can access Amazon Q while on the AWS Management Console or its documentation pages, de …

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]]> Emilia David <![CDATA[AWS’s transcription platform is now powered by generative AI]]> https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978822/aws-transcription-amazon-generative-ai 2023-11-27T20:08:34-05:00 2023-11-27T20:08:34-05:00

AWS added new languages to its Amazon Transcribe product, offering speech foundation model-based transcription for 100 languages and a slew of new AI capabilities for customers.

Announced during the AWS re: Invent event, Amazon Transcribe can now recognize more spoken languages and spin up a call transcription. AWS customers use Transcribe to add speech-to-text capabilities to their apps on the AWS Cloud.

The company said in a blog post that Transcribe trained on "millions of hours of unlabeled audio data from over 100 languages" and uses self-supervised algorithms to learn patterns of human speech in different languages and accents. AWS …

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