AWS Weekly Roundup — New models for Amazon Bedrock, CloudFront embedded POPs, and more — March 4, 2024

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This has been a busy week – we introduced a new kind of Amazon CloudFront infrastructure, more efficient ways to analyze data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and new generative AI capabilities... Last week’s launches Here’s what got my attention: Amazon Bedrock – Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models are now generally available on Amazon Bedroc...

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now available in Amazon Bedrock

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In September 2023, we announced a strategic collaboration with Anthropic that brought together their respective technology and expertise in safer generative artificial intelligence (AI), to accelerate the development of Anthropic’s Claude foundation models (FMs) and make them widely accessible to AWS customers... You can get early access to unique features of Anthropic’s Claude model in Amazon...

Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI together

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Amazon Bedrock is the best place to build and scale generative AI applications with large language models (LLM) and other foundation models (FMs)... It enables customers to leverage a variety of high-performing FMs, such as the Claude family of models by Anthropic, to build custom generative AI applications... Looking back to 2021, when Anthropic first started building on AWS, no one could have e...

Total Return Forecasts: Major Asset Classes | 4 March 2024

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The long-term return return estimate for the Global Market Index (GMI) edged up in February, rising from January’s estimate — the first increase in three months...8% annualized return for the unmanaged benchmark, which holds all the major asset classes (except cash) based on market weights via a set of ETF proxies...US stocks remain the outlier for expected return: the average forecast is we...

Macro Briefing: 4 March 2024

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* New concerns for regional banks after NY Community Bancorp rating cut to junk * Rising tide of new laws reshape how Big Tech operates around the world * Japan’s stock market rally persists: Nikkei 225 index tops 40,000 for first time * Several OPEC+ countries extend voluntary oil-supply cuts * US economic strength inspires some to argue no rates cuts are likely in 2024 * ISM manufacturing inde...

Book Bits: 2 March 2024

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By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content... Kara Swisher unwraps how we got to this point in her incendiary memoir… Swisher skewers many of the once-idealistic tech moguls who, when she met them as entrepreneurs decades ago, promised to change the world for the better but often chose a path of destructive disruption instead... In this...

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports hybrid search

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Semantic search is widely used because it is able to understand more human-like questions—a user’s query is not always directly related to the exact keywords in the content that answers it... Semantic search helps provide answers based on the meaning of the text... To overcome such limitations, combining semantic search with keyword search (hybrid) will give better results... In this post, w...