Year: 2024

Distributed training and efficient scaling with the Amazon SageMaker Model Parallel and Data Parallel Libraries

Xinle Sheila Liu

In this post, we explore the performance benefits of Amazon SageMaker (including SMP and SMDDP), and how you can use the library to train large models efficiently on SageMaker. We demonstrate the performance of SageMaker with benchmarks on ml.p4d.24xlarge clusters up to 128 instances, and FSDP mixed precision with bfloat16 for the Llama 2 model.

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Distributed training and efficient scaling with the Amazon SageMaker Model Parallel and Data Parallel Libraries

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April 16, 2024
Manage your Amazon Lex bot via AWS CloudFormation templates

Thomas Rindfuss

Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications. It employs advanced deep learning technologies to understand user input, enabling developers to create chatbots, virtual assistants, and other applications that can interact with users in natural language. Managing your […]

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April 16, 2024
A secure approach to generative AI with AWS

Anthony Liguori

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the customer experience in industries across the globe. Customers are building generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs), which enhance customer experiences, transform operations, improve employee productivity, and create new revenue channels. The biggest concern we hear from customers as they explore the advantages of generative AI is how to protect their highly sensitive data and investments. At AWS, our top priority is safeguarding the security and confidentiality of our customers’ workloads. We think about security across the three layers of our generative AI stack …

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A secure approach to generative AI with AWS

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April 16, 2024
Google will outpace Microsoft in AI investment, DeepMind CEO says

Linnea Ahlgren

We have all been guilty of falling under the foundation model spell of the past year-and-a-half, initiated by OpenAI’s unveiling of ChatGPT to the public. But it is not only where large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are concerned that incredible progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence. And one company has been behind more impressive milestones than most — DeepMind, acquired by Google in 2014 for a reported £400mn to £650mn. Speaking at the TED 40th anniversary conference in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday, DeepMind’s CEO and head of Google’s entire AI R&D efforts, Demis Hassabis, confirmed…

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Google will outpace Microsoft in AI investment, DeepMind CEO says

April 16, 2024
Dutch deep tech fund for photonics startups reaches €75M after second close

Ioanna Lykiardopoulou

PhotonVentures, a Dutch deep tech fund aiming to boost Europe’s photonics industry, has closed its second fundraising round with over €15mn — bringing its total capital to €75mn. The fund targets startups and scaleups developing solutions with photonic chips for a wide range of applications: from data transmission and health diagnostics to smart sensors, AI, AR, and VR. PhotonVentures will initially invest in 20 early-stage companies with international growth potential. It will focus on Seed to Series A rounds, with investments varying between €1mn and €2.5mn. The VC firm is a spinoff and strategic partner of PhotonDelta, a manufacturer of…

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Dutch deep tech fund for photonics startups reaches €75M after second close

April 16, 2024
Apple brings out new second-gen betas, including Web Distribution for iOS 17.5

Apple has shifted onto the second round of developer betas, with the latest iteration of iOS 17.5 including Apple’s Web Distribution system.

iOS 17

Developers taking part in Apple’s beta program can acquire the new builds via any Apple Developer Center or more directly by updating their iPhone or iPad already running the betas, doing so through the Settings app. Public beta versions generally arrive a short time after the developer versions, and public participants can sign up through the Apple Beta Software Program website.

The second betas for iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, tvOS 17.5, watchOS 10.5, and macOS Sonoma 14.5 arrive after the first versions, which surfaced on April 2.

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April 16, 2024
Second developer beta of visionOS 1.2 has arrived

Owners of the Apple Vision Pro can now test out the second developer build of the visionOS 1.2 operating system.

visionOS

The second build of visionOS 1.2 surfaces after the first one, which arrived on April 2. The new build is build number 21O5565d, replacing the first beta, build number 21O5555e.

It is still unclear exactly what Apple has changed in the new beta cycle, but release notes mention changes were made to fix an issue with FaceTime call synchronization and notification interruption issues for some apps.

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April 16, 2024
How iOS Web Distribution works in the EU in iOS 17.5

The new iOS 17.5 beta introduces app sideloading from websites in the EU and Apple has announced both what eligible developers have to do, and what users can expect to see.

Apple is allowing EU developers to skip the App Store and offer sideloading from their websites

As previously expected, the new beta release of iOS 17.5, adds the facility for sideloading apps from a website. Apple had previously resisted allowing this Web Distribution, but was pressured into it by the EU and its Digital Markets Act.

Apple has now issued new support articles for developers on what is required for eligibility, and how the sideloading should work for users. The company stresses that it will check apps for basic security and safety.

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April 16, 2024
Future Apple Vision Pro could help the user get life-saving medical advice

Apple is developing technology for wearable devices like Apple Vision Pro that measure and monitor biometric data and location to provide tailored and potentially lifesaving advice.

Apple wearables could provide medication reminders and guidance.

An Apple patent, “Method and device for health monitoring,” describes a system for monitoring a user’s biometric data to display suggestions and guidance in a mixed-reality (MR) system. The implementation of the technology suggests future wearables from Apple that would be worn full-time, like the much-rumored Apple Glasses.

This technology will not only provide individualized suggestions, but just as the Apple Watch has saved people who have fallen or are suffering cardiac events, this technology would monitor activity and location to provide real-time health guidance.

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Future Apple Vision Pro could help the user get life-saving medical advice

April 16, 2024
HMD’s first phones just leaked, and I’m mighty disappointed

Nadeem Sarwar

HMD, the former licensee of Nokia brand, teased us with some peppy design earlier this year. Fresh leaks revealing its new Pulse phones simply hurt my heart.

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HMD’s first phones just leaked, and I’m mighty disappointed

April 16, 2024

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