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Maximize LLM Precision with EoRA

Quantization reduces memory usage in large language models by converting parameters to lower-precision formats. EoRA improves 2-bit quantization accuracy, making models up to 5.5x smaller while maintaining performance.

Supercharge Your Models: The Power of Ensembling

Bagging and boosting are essential ensemble techniques in machine learning, improving model stability and reducing bias in weak learners. Ensembling combines predictions from multiple models to create powerful models, with bagging reducing variance and boosting iteratively improving on errors.

AlphaEvolve: Revolutionizing Algorithms

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaEvolve, an AI system that evolves code, discovering new algorithms for coding and data analysis. Using Genetic Algorithms and Gemini Llm, AlphaEvolve prompts, mutates, evaluates, and breeds code for optimal solutions.

HyperPod recipes for customizing DeepSeek-R1 671b model

DeepSeek AI's DeepSeek-R1 model with 671 billion parameters showcases strong few-shot learning capabilities, prompting customization for various business applications. SageMaker HyperPod recipes streamline the fine-tuning process, offering optimized solutions for organizations seeking to enhance model performance and adaptability.

Demystifying the Parquet File Format

Apache Parquet is a game-changer in data storage, offering data compression, columnar storage, language flexibility, open-source format, and support for complex data types. Unlike traditional row-based storage, Parquet's column-based approach allows for faster data read operations, optimizing analytics workloads.

AI learns to talk like humans

Study finds AI agents can develop human-like social norms when communicating in groups, like humans. Research by City St George’s, University of London and IT University of Copenhagen.

GOP Pushes for 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations

US Republicans seek to block state laws regulating AI for 10 years in budget bill, aiming to prevent guardrails on automated decision-making systems. Proposed provision in House bill would restrict any state or local regulation of AI models or systems unless to facilitate deployment.

AI Voices Revolutionize Audiobooks

Audible, an Amazon brand, will introduce over 100 AI-generated voices for audiobooks in multiple languages. AI technology will be used for narration, with translation capabilities to come, offered to select publishers.

Defending Amazon Bedrock Agents from Prompt Injections

Amazon Bedrock offers security controls against indirect prompt injections, safeguarding AI interactions. Indirect prompt injections can lead to data exfiltration, misinformation, and system manipulation. Understanding and mitigating these challenges are crucial for maintaining security and trust in AI systems.