Month: September 2023
Amazon wants to offer your business a whole host of generative AI models for AWS
AWS looks to gear up towards the future of AI.
AWS has now confirmed its Bedrock platform is now generally available as it looks to help its customers build generative AI tools and applications.
At the same time, the company announced that it has become the first to offer a fully managed GenAI service offering Meta’s Llama 2.
Clearly on a roll, Amazon also confirmed the general availability of even more AI-centric products as it looks to take the fight to some of the industry’s giants.
Amazon Bedrock is finally generally available
Amazon made its first announcement of Bedrock back in April of this year, with certain customers able to make use of the service. Now that it’s generally available, the “fully managed service” can be accessed by all customers.
Included is access to a range of foundation models by some of the biggest AI companies, such as Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon itself. Users can combine these with their own proprietary data for better customization.
The company has confirmed that Llama 2 is also set to come to the service “in the next few weeks” through a managed API, which means access to Meta’s next-generation LLM with 13 billion and 70 billion parameters.
Coinciding with the general availability of Amazon Bedrock, the company also announced the general availability of Amazon Titan Embeddings and Amazon CodeWhisperer. The latter promises to “unlock the full potential of generative AI-powered coding” by considering users’ internal codebases and resources, bringing a new level of efficiency to developers.
London-based bank NatWest, an existing Bedrock customer, said that the service allows it to “leverage the latest generative AI models in a secure and scalable platform” to build tools to “combat the next generation of threats from financial crime” and to improve customer experience.
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Engadget Podcast: Meta’s Quest 3, AI and Ray-Ban smart glasses
This week, it’s Meta’s turn to highlight AI during its device event. In this episode, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into all of the news from Meta’s Connect 2023 event, where it unveiled Meta AI and accompanying celebrity-powered chatbots. Oh yah, and it introduced the Meta Quest 3 and new Ray-Ban smart glasses, too. More so than the metaverse and VR, it’s really AI that Zuckerberg wants to push across all of Meta’s apps and devices.
And in other news, we discuss why the end of the WGA strike is a big deal for AI in Hollywood; ex-Microsoft exec Panos Panay officially heading to Amazon; and why the FTC is targeting Amazon over its potential ecommerce monopoly.
Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you’ve got suggestions or topics you’d like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News!
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Meta’s Connect event announces Quest 3 VR, Ray-Ban smart glasses and a slew of AI – 0:35
Hollywood Writers’ Guild ends strike with studio agreements on AI authorship, streaming residuals – 28:51
Panos Panay is officially going to head Amazon’s devices team – 32:03
FTC sues Amazon over ‘monopolistic practices’ – 35:30
FCC revives Obama-era net neutrality rules – 37:59
Jony Ive and Sam Altman are working on AI-powered hardware – 40:43
Top U.S. spy agencies are working on AI chatbots of their own – 55:56
Working on – 58:24
Pop culture picks – 59:23
CreditsHosts: Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn LowProducer: Ben EllmanMusic: Dale North and Terrence O’BrienThis article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/engadget-podcast-meta-quest-3-ai-chatbots-123005634.html?src=rss
This week, it’s Meta’s turn to highlight AI during its device event. In this episode, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into all of the news from Meta’s Connect 2023 event, where it unveiled Meta AI and accompanying celebrity-powered chatbots. Oh yah, and it introduced the Meta Quest 3 and new Ray-Ban smart glasses, too. More so than the metaverse and VR, it’s really AI that Zuckerberg wants to push across all of Meta’s apps and devices.
And in other news, we discuss why the end of the WGA strike is a big deal for AI in Hollywood; ex-Microsoft exec Panos Panay officially heading to Amazon; and why the FTC is targeting Amazon over its potential ecommerce monopoly.
Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you’ve got suggestions or topics you’d like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News!
Subscribe!
Topics
Meta’s Connect event announces Quest 3 VR, Ray-Ban smart glasses and a slew of AI – 0:35
Hollywood Writers’ Guild ends strike with studio agreements on AI authorship, streaming residuals – 28:51
Panos Panay is officially going to head Amazon’s devices team – 32:03
FTC sues Amazon over ‘monopolistic practices’ – 35:30
FCC revives Obama-era net neutrality rules – 37:59
Jony Ive and Sam Altman are working on AI-powered hardware – 40:43
Top U.S. spy agencies are working on AI chatbots of their own – 55:56
Working on – 58:24
Pop culture picks – 59:23
Credits
Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn Low
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/engadget-podcast-meta-quest-3-ai-chatbots-123005634.html?src=rss
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Apple to Ramp Up Generative AI Research With New Hires and Investment
Apple wants to hire more staff to work on artificial intelligence in the United Kingdom, CEO Tim Cook today said (via BBC News).
Cook reaffirmed that Apple is actively researching generative AI technology, and said that he expects Apple’s investment in the UK and AI to increase. He also highlighted how AI is already behind several features on Apple devices, such as Fall Detection, Crash Detection, and iOS 17’s predictive autocorrect.
Apple is believed to now be spending millions of dollars a day on conversational AI research. The company is reportedly working on a chatbot tool that some engineers have dubbed “Apple GPT” to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Cook is currently visiting the UK following trips to several other countries in Europe. Yesterday, he visited St. Mary’s Primary School and Apple’s new store in Battersea Power Station. Earlier today, he met the Prince and Princess of Wales.
It was a true honor to meet with the Prince and Princess of Wales. We had a wonderful and wide-ranging discussion about the environment, mental health, and other issues that mean a great deal to all of us. pic.twitter.com/QGVmxo9Qa5— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) September 29, 2023
The move to hire more staff appears to come in contrast to widespread redundancies at big tech companies. Yesterday, it emerged that Epic Games is laying off over 800 employees.Tags: Tim Cook, United Kingdom, Artificial Intelligence, AppleGPTThis article, “Apple to Ramp Up Generative AI Research With New Hires and Investment” first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
Apple wants to hire more staff to work on artificial intelligence in the United Kingdom, CEO Tim Cook today said (via BBC News).
Cook reaffirmed that Apple is actively researching generative AI technology, and said that he expects Apple’s investment in the UK and AI to increase. He also highlighted how AI is already behind several features on Apple devices, such as Fall Detection, Crash Detection, and iOS 17‘s predictive autocorrect.
Apple is believed to now be spending millions of dollars a day on conversational AI research. The company is reportedly working on a chatbot tool that some engineers have dubbed “Apple GPT” to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Cook is currently visiting the UK following trips to several other countries in Europe. Yesterday, he visited St. Mary’s Primary School and Apple’s new store in Battersea Power Station. Earlier today, he met the Prince and Princess of Wales.
It was a true honor to meet with the Prince and Princess of Wales. We had a wonderful and wide-ranging discussion about the environment, mental health, and other issues that mean a great deal to all of us. pic.twitter.com/QGVmxo9Qa5
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) September 29, 2023
The move to hire more staff appears to come in contrast to widespread redundancies at big tech companies. Yesterday, it emerged that Epic Games is laying off over 800 employees.
This article, “Apple to Ramp Up Generative AI Research With New Hires and Investment” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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The wait is finally over – AMD FSR 3 is launching tomorrow
AMD FSR3 is officially debuting tomorrow – 11 months after its initial announcement.
AMD Radeon users are in for a treat, especially those using RX 7000-series cards. Way back in November 2022, AMD showcased its FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) technology in the upcoming RDNA 3 series. FSR 3 is similar to Nvidia’s DLSS 3 upscaling tech, with AMD playing catch-up to ensure their software keeps at Nvidia’s level. It’s been a long time coming but we now know that the feature will be debuting tomorrow!
FSR 3’s core addition is ‘Fluid Motion Frames – essentially ‘live’ frame generation which creates new frames and inserts them between existing rendered frames to improve your overall framerate. A firm release date has remained a mystery up until this point, but Frank Azor, Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions and marketing for AMD put out a tweet yesterday confirming the big release date.
We are working with our partners to bring you the first 2 FSR3 enabled games tomorrow. More titles will begin ramping-up thereafter, as we saw with prior versions of FSR, which are now supported in over 300 announced games @amdradeon @AMDGamingSeptember 28, 2023
Frank hasn’t specified exactly what games will support FSR 3 when it launches tomorrow, though according to VideoCardz Forspoken and Immortals of Avenum will be the first titles to host the tech. The company apparently confirmed that FSR 3 will be compatible with Radeon RX 5700/RTX 20 series and newer GPUs, along with plans to make the Fluid Motion Frames feature open-source, allowing adaptation to other GPU platforms in the future.
A game of catch-up
While we may have waited a long time, it’s good to see AMD invest time and effort into catching up with Nvidia’s own frame-gen technology introduced in DLSS 3. I’m excited to see how FSR 3 performs in comparison to Nvidia’s offering, considering AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames don’t use AI (nor does FSR’s regular upscaling mode), but DLSS does.
FSR can work with any graphics card because it’s open-source – unlike DLSS – which opens the feature across graphics cards, meaning you don’t have to own an AMD card to benefit from the frame-gen tech.
FSR 3’s upscaling capabilities will need to be implemented at a developer level, and as it stands DLSS supports more games than FSR (though keep in mind that’s largely only because Nvidia released its version of the tech first). However, the Fluid Motion Frames feature will – according to PCWorld – be capable of running at the driver level, which means it could potentially work with most modern games in your roster.
Still, I’m excited about the launch tomorrow – I can’t wait to see what AMD has to offer and test out the technology for myself.
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