Amazon launches its Bedrock generative AI service in general availability

Amazon has announced the general availability of Bedrock, a service that provides a selection of generative AI models from Amazon and third-party partners via an API. Bedrock allows AWS customers to build apps on top of these AI models and customize them with their own data. In the coming weeks, Bedrock will also offer Llama 2, the open source large language model from Meta. Amazon claims Bedrock will be the first fully managed generative AI service to offer Llama 2.

In related news, Amazon has also announced the rollout of its Titan Embeddings model, a first-party model that converts text to numerical representations to power search and personalization applications. Despite a rocky start, with most cloud customers not having access six weeks after its demo, Amazon is looking to make a significant impact in the generative AI market with these recent developments and its multi-billion-dollar investment in AI startup Anthropic.

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Amazon has announced the general availability of Bedrock, a service that offers a selection of generative AI models from Amazon and third-party partners through an API.
Bedrock allows AWS customers to build apps on top of generative AI models and customize them with their proprietary data, creating AI “agents” that can automatically execute tasks.
In the coming weeks, Llama 2, the open source large language model from Meta, will be available on Bedrock, joining models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere and Stability AI.
Amazon also announced the rollout of its Titan Embeddings model, a first-party model that converts text to numerical representations to power search and personalization applications.

Amazon launches its Bedrock generative AI service in general availability | TechCrunch

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