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- Silicon Valley shaken as open-source AI models Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2 match industry leadersby Michael Nuñez on July 27, 2024 at 1:18 am
Meta’s Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2 open-source AI models challenge industry leaders, reshaping the AI landscape and democratizing access to cutting-edge technology.
- Epic Games pulls out of ‘rent collector’ distribution and will restore Fortnite to iOS in Europeby Dean Takahashi on July 26, 2024 at 8:15 pm
Epic unveiled its new game strategy for mobile game stores in a move that was driven by new regulation in Europe and ongoing platform wars.
- How Salesforce’s MINT-1T dataset could disrupt the AI industryby Michael Nuñez on July 26, 2024 at 7:55 pm
Salesforce’s MINT-1T, a trillion-token dataset, revolutionizes AI research by democratizing access and raising crucial ethical questions about the future of machine learning.
AWS News Blog Announcements, Updates, and Launches
- Announcing Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B models from Meta in Amazon Bedrockby Channy Yun on July 23, 2024 at 4:20 pm
The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size multilingual models that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks, offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications.
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Global AWS Heroes Summit, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and more (July 22, 2024)by Donnie Prakoso on July 22, 2024 at 5:03 pm
Last week, AWS Heroes from around the world gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AWS Heroes program at Global AWS Heroes Summit. This program recognizes a select group of AWS experts worldwide who go above and beyond in sharing their knowledge and making an impact within developer communities. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Advanced capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and more (July 15, 2024).by Abhishek Gupta on July 15, 2024 at 6:19 pm
July 16, 2024: Updated link for “IDE workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat” As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News