Observed Signal · Jul 28, 2023 · Technical Release · Source: Trending Topics · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Positive
AWS Adds Anthropic, Stability AI, Cohere Models to Bedrock
At the AWS Summit in New York, Amazon Web Services expanded its Bedrock platform with new foundation models to compete with Microsoft/OpenAI and Google in generative AI. Anthropic's Claude 2, Stability AI's Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, and Cohere's Command and Embed were added to the managed service. Claude 2 can process up to 100,000 tokens, while SDXL 1.0 improves image generation. Cohere's Embed supports text interpretation in more than 100 languages. Bedrock already included models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon's Titan family. AWS named Coda, Lonely Planet, Ryanair, Showpad, and Travelers as customers. Swami Sivasubramanian said AWS is democratizing access to generative AI. Notably, OpenAI's GPT-4 was not listed because it remains tied to Microsoft's Azure cloud.
AWS, a leading cloud platform, added major foundation models to Amazon Bedrock, accelerating enterprise AI adoption and intensifying competition with Microsoft/OpenAI and Google in AI infrastructure.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- AWS announced the new foundation model additions to Amazon Bedrock at the AWS Summit in New York.
- Anthropic's Claude 2 can process up to 100,000 tokens, equivalent to hundreds of pages of text.
- Stability AI's Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 was added to Amazon Bedrock with improved image and composition details.
- Cohere's Command and Embed models joined Bedrock; Embed supports search, clustering, and classification in more than 100 languages.
- AWS named Coda, Lonely Planet, Ryanair, Showpad, and Travelers as customers for its generative AI services.
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