Distill allows users to choose which AI model performs the meeting summarizing, with Sonnet, a mid-range model in Anthropic’s Claude 3 family, as the default. Vogels acknowledges that the AI is not perfect and may require manual adjustment, but maintains that it still speeds up processes. He is currently working on porting Distill's codebase from Python to Rust.
Key takeaways:
- Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has built an open-source app called Distill, which transcribes and summarizes conference calls.
- Distill uses paid Amazon products and services such as AWS Transcribe for transcription, Amazon S3 for storage, and Bedrock for summarization.
- The app allows users to select which AI model performs the meeting summarizing, with the default being Sonnet, a model in Anthropic’s Claude 3 family.
- Vogels acknowledges that the AI is not perfect and that some summaries may require manual adjustment, but argues that it still speeds up processes.