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Hugging Face Releases SmolLM3: A 3B Long-Context, Multilingual Reasoning Model
ByRicardo July 9, 2025

Hugging Face just released SmolLM3, the latest version of its “Smol” language models, designed to deliver strong multilingual reasoning over long contexts using a compact 3B-parameter architecture. While most high-context capable models typically push beyond 7B parameters, SmolLM3 manages to offer state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance with significantly fewer parameters—making it more cost-efficient and deployable on constrained…

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Accelerate AI development with Amazon Bedrock API keys
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

Today, we’re excited to announce a significant improvement to the developer experience of Amazon Bedrock: API keys. API keys provide quick access to the Amazon Bedrock APIs, streamlining the authentication process so that developers can focus on building rather than configuration. CamelAI is an open-source, modular framework for building intelligent multi-agent systems for data generation,…

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Accelerating data science innovation: How Bayer Crop Science used AWS AI/ML services to build their next-generation MLOps service
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

The world’s population is expanding at a rapid rate. The growing global population requires innovative solutions to produce food, fiber, and fuel, while restoring natural resources like soil and water and addressing climate change. Bayer Crop Science estimates farmers need to increase crop production by 50% by 2050 to meet these demands. To support their…

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Combat financial fraud with GraphRAG on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

Financial fraud detection isn’t just important to banks—it’s essential. With global fraud losses surpassing $40 billion annually and sophisticated criminal networks constantly evolving their tactics, financial institutions face an increasingly complex threat landscape. Today’s fraud schemes operate across multiple accounts, institutions, and channels, creating intricate webs designed specifically to evade detection systems. Financial institutions have…

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Classify call center conversations with Amazon Bedrock batch inference
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

In this post, we demonstrate how to build an end-to-end solution for text classification using the Amazon Bedrock batch inference capability with the Anthropic’s Claude Haiku model. Amazon Bedrock batch inference offers a 50% discount compared to the on-demand price, which is an important factor when dealing with a large number of requests. We walk…

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Effective cross-lingual LLM evaluation with Amazon Bedrock
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

Evaluating the quality of AI responses across multiple languages presents significant challenges for organizations deploying generative AI solutions globally. How can you maintain consistent performance when human evaluations require substantial resources, especially across diverse languages? Many companies find themselves struggling to scale their evaluation processes without compromising quality or breaking their budgets. Amazon Bedrock Evaluations…

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Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Announcements

Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

This post is co-written with Payal Singh from Cohere. The Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now generally available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Embed 4 model is built for multimodal business documents, has leading multilingual capabilities, and offers notable improvement over Embed 3 across key benchmarks. In this post, we discuss the benefits…

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Apple loses key AI leader to Meta
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

Apple is nursing a fresh wound this week after losing one of its most crucial AI leaders to Meta. Ruoming Pang, the executive who oversaw Apple Intelligence, has jumped ship to join Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs. Pang wasn’t just any Apple employee. He led a 100-strong army of engineers crafting the language models that make…

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Data Management

EDM Council and OMG Combine to Create Data and Standards Authority
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

First-of-its-kind non-profit trade association to foster the growth of data, software, systems, knowledge engineering, and standards capability EDM Council®, the global association for data management, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Object Management Group® (OMG®), the open membership, not-for-profit technology consortium. The combination brings together more than 700 corporate and public-sector member organizations, eight regional…

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DataBahn.ai Appoints Preston Wood as Chief Security and Strategy Officer
ByRicardo July 8, 2025

Wood joins Payman Faed and Trevor Crompton, who will lead the West US and EMEA sales efforts, respectively, at DataBahn.ai. DataBahn.ai, pioneers in the security-native data pipeline platform built for modern enterprise workloads, today announced the appointment of Preston Wood as Chief Security and Strategy Officer. A distinguished cybersecurity and technology executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience,…

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