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This post was co-authored with Laura Lee Williams and John Jabara from University Startups. University Startups, headquartered in Bethesda, MD, was founded in 2020 to empower high school students to expand their education beyond a traditional curriculum. University Startups is focused on special education and related services in school districts throughout the US. After students …

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These Chrome features and tips for students can help you learn more easily while staying organized and focused, too. ​ 

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly prevalent across both consumer and enterprise applications. However, their tendency to “hallucinate” information and deliver incorrect answers with seeming confidence has created a trust problem. Think of LLMs as you would a human expert: we typically trust experts who can back up their claims with references and walk …

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We’re introducing Flight Deals, a new, AI-powered search tool. Plus, there’s a new way to exclude basic economy on Google Flights. ​ 

Organizations are increasingly excited about the potential of AI agents, but many find themselves stuck in what we call “proof of concept purgatory”—where promising agent prototypes struggle to make the leap to production deployment. In our conversations with customers, we’ve heard consistent challenges that block the path from experimentation to enterprise-grade deployment: “Our developers want …

Securely launch and scale your agents and tools on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Read More »

Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Oklahoma within the next two years in cloud and AI infrastructure. This investment supports the development of a new data… ​ 

This is a guest post co-written with Scott Likens, Ambuj Gupta, Adam Hood, Chantal Hudson, Priyanka Mukhopadhyay, Deniz Konak Ozturk, and Kevin Paul from PwC Organizations are deploying generative AI solutions while balancing accuracy, security, and compliance. In this globally competitive environment, scale matters less, speed matters more, and innovation matters most of all, according …

PwC and AWS Build Responsible AI with Automated Reasoning on Amazon Bedrock Read More »

At Amazon, our team builds Rufus, a generative AI-powered shopping assistant that serves millions of customers at immense scale. However, deploying Rufus at scale introduces significant challenges that must be carefully navigated. Rufus is powered by a custom-built large language model (LLM). As the model’s complexity increased, we prioritized developing scalable multi-node inference capabilities that …

How Amazon scaled Rufus by building multi-node inference using AWS Trainium chips and vLLM Read More »

Agentic AI is revolutionizing the financial services industry through its ability to make autonomous decisions and adapt in real time, moving well beyond traditional automation. Imagine an AI assistant that can analyze quarterly earnings reports, compare them against industry expectations, and generate insights about future performance. This seemingly straightforward task involves multiple complex steps: document …

Build an intelligent financial analysis agent with LangGraph and Strands Agents Read More »

AI assistants that forget what you told them 5 minutes ago aren’t very helpful. While large language models (LLMs) excel at generating human-like responses, they are fundamentally stateless—they don’t retain information between interactions. This forces developers to build custom memory systems to track conversation history, remember user preferences, and maintain context across sessions, often solving …

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Building context-aware agents Read More »