Macro Briefing: 4 April 2024

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Yellen says US may consider new tariffs on China * Atlanta Fed’s Bostic now sees only one rate cut this year * Global economic recovery is driving a strong commodities rally in 2024 * Eurozone economic activity begins to recover via PMI survey data * US services sector growth slows further in March via ISM Services Index, and… * ISM Services data also indicate price pressures are easing * US ...

Seamlessly transition between no-code and code-first machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon SageMaker Studio

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Amazon SageMaker Studio is a web-based, integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that lets you build, train, debug, deploy, and monitor your ML models... SageMaker Studio provides all the tools you need to take your models from data preparation to experimentation to production while boosting your productivity... Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a powerful no-code ML tool desig...

Center for BrainHealth teams up with AWS to grow Charisma program using generative AI and cloud gaming

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Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the cognitive neuroscience team at Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas (the center) began experimenting with an idea more than a decade ago – to create a virtual environment using video game technology to help individuals practice developing social skills alongside a coach, in a risk-free space... In 2016 the center launched Charisma ...

Build a contextual text and image search engine for product recommendations using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

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In this post, we show how to build a contextual text and image search engine for product recommendations using the Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings model, available in Amazon Bedrock, with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless... A multimodal embeddings model is designed to learn joint representations of different modalities like text, images, and audio... By training on large-scale datasets containin...

New Questions Emerge On Prospects For A June Rate Cut

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Forecasts that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates in June took another hit after Monday’s relatively firm manufacturing-survey data for March...“If the contraction of manufacturing activity is over, far too soon to say, and price pressures are building in manufacturing, which appears to have been happening for the last three months, then this would have implications ...

Macro Briefing: 3 April 2024

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* Taiwan hit by strongest earthquake in 25 years * Fed officials still expect rate cuts, but not anytime soon * Global manufacturing growth strengthens in March via PMI survey * China manufacturing growth posts strongest pace in 13 months: PMI survey * Eurozone inflation unexpectedly cools to 2...4% in March * Tesla’s sales fall, a sign that’s its share of EV market is slipping * US factory or...

Tackle complex reasoning tasks with Mistral Large, now available on Amazon Bedrock

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Last month, we announced the availability of two high-performing Mistral AI models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B on Amazon Bedrock... Mistral 7B, as the first foundation model of Mistral, supports English text generation tasks with natural coding capabilities... Mixtral 8x7B is a popular, high-quality, sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, that is ideal for text summarization, question and answ...