Turbocharging premium audit capabilities with the power of generative AI: Verisk’s journey toward a sophisticated conversational chat platform to enhance customer support

This post is co-written with Sajin Jacob, Jerry Chen, Siddarth Mohanram, Luis Barbier, Kristen Chenowith, and Michelle Stahl from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading data analytics and technology partner for the global insurance industry. Through advanced analytics, software, research, and industry expertise across more than 20 countries, Verisk helps build resilience for individuals, […]

Build verifiable explainability into financial services workflows with Automated Reasoning checks for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Foundational models (FMs) and generative AI are transforming how financial service institutions (FSIs) operate their core business functions. AWS FSI customers, including NASDAQ, State Bank of India, and Bridgewater, have used FMs to reimagine their business operations and deliver improved outcomes. FMs are probabilistic in nature and produce a range of outcomes. Though these models […]

Best practices for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we launched a new innovation in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that enables you to run generative AI development tasks on shared accelerated compute resources efficiently and reduce costs by up to 40%. Administrators can use SageMaker HyperPod task governance to govern allocation of accelerated compute […]

How Formula 1® uses generative AI to accelerate race-day issue resolution

Formula 1® (F1) races are high-stakes affairs where operational efficiency is paramount. During these live events, F1 IT engineers must triage critical issues across its services, such as network degradation to one of its APIs. This impacts downstream services that consume data from the API, including products such as F1 TV, which offer live and […]

Using Amazon Rekognition to improve bicycle safety

Cycling is a fun way to stay fit, enjoy nature, and connect with friends and acquaintances. However, riding is becoming increasingly dangerous, especially in situations where cyclists and cars share the road. According to the NHTSA, in the United States an average of 883 people on bicycles are killed in traffic crashes, with an average […]

Build a dynamic, role-based AI agent using Amazon Bedrock inline agents

AI agents continue to gain momentum, as businesses use the power of generative AI to reinvent customer experiences and automate complex workflows. We are seeing Amazon Bedrock Agents applied in investment research, insurance claims processing, root cause analysis, advertising campaigns, and much more. Agents use the reasoning capability of foundation models (FMs) to break down […]

Fine-tune LLMs with synthetic data for context-based Q&A using Amazon Bedrock

There’s a growing demand from customers to incorporate generative AI into their businesses. Many use cases involve using pre-trained large language models (LLMs) through approaches like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). However, for advanced, domain-specific tasks or those requiring specific formats, model customization techniques such as fine-tuning are sometimes necessary. Amazon Bedrock provides you with the […]

Achieve ~2x speed-up in LLM inference with Medusa-1 on Amazon SageMaker AI

This blog post is co-written with Moran beladev, Manos Stergiadis, and Ilya Gusev from Booking.com. Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing with their ability to understand and generate humanlike text. Trained on broad, generic datasets spanning a wide range of topics and domains, LLMs use their parametric knowledge to […]