Amazon has been developing AI and ML technology for more than 25 years, and recent ML innovations have made the capabilities of generative AI possible.
Seven generative AI updates were recently announced at the AWS Summit in New York.
In his keynote speech at the event, Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services (AWS), said he expects that AWS services and capabilities will democratise the use of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)—broadening access for all types of customers, across all lines of business—from engineering to marketing to customer service to finance and sales.
“Generative AI has captured our imaginations,” Sivasubramanian said. “This technology has reached its tipping point.”
In the next update, New Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances harness NVIDIA H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerating generative AI training and inferenceThese Amazon EC2 P5 instances—now generally available—are powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, which are optimised for training LLMs and developing generative AI applications. (An “instance” in cloud lingo is virtual access to a compute resource—in this case, compute powered by H100 GPUs.) AWS is the first leading cloud provider to make NVIDIA’s highly sought-after H100 GPUs generally available in production. These instances are ideal for training and running inference for the increasingly complex LLMs and compute-intensive generative AI applications, including question answering, code generation, video and image generation, speech recognition, and more. With access to H100 GPUs, customers will be able to create their own LLMs and FMs on AWS faster than ever.
And finally, AWS offers seven free and low-cost skills training courses to help you use generative AI More than 75% of organisations plan to adopt big data, cloud computing, and AI in the next five years, according to the World Economic Forum. To help people train for the AI and ML jobs of the future, AWS released on-demand skills trainings to support those who want to understand, implement, and begin using generative AI. Amazon has designed training courses specifically for developers who want to use Amazon CodeWhisperer, engineers and data scientists who want to leverage generative AI by training and deploying FMs, executives seeking to understand how generative AI can address their business challenges, and AWS Partners helping their customers harness generative AI’s potential.
(Source: AWS)
