Amazon has introduced the Bedrock service for AWS, enabling developers to use and tailor text- and image-generation models. The tool is accessible via the API.
We’re announcing Amazon Bedrock—giving customers the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with access to the leading foundation models including @AnthropicAI, @AI21Labs, @StabilityAI and Amazon Titan FMs. Choice rules!https://t.co/Oon4UYgapN
— Adam Selipsky (@aselipsky) April 13, 2023
AWS customers can use Bedrock to create chatbots, write and summarise text, and classify images from text prompts.
The service offers users a choice of the base Amazon Titan (FM) model and developments from a number of startups, including:
- Claude from Anthropic — a competitor to ChatGPT by former OpenAI employees, backed by Google;
- Jurassic-2 from AI21 — a model supporting Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch;
- Stable Diffusion — a popular open-source image generator.
Companies and developers can prohibit models from using their data to train algorithms. In theory this should address privacy concerns for users providing sensitive data to neural networks.
Amazon sees the lineup of AI models as a way to give customers flexibility.
“With the serverless Bedrock experience, you can quickly get started,” the announcement said.
According to CNBC article by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, training language models that are truly good requires billions of dollars and many years.
“Most companies don’t want to go through that. … They want to work with a base model that is already large and good, and then be able to tailor it for their own purposes. That’s what Bedrock is,” he added.
According to Amazon, companies C3.ai, Pegasystems, Accenture and Deloitte were among the first users of the service. However, the tech giant has not yet announced prices for the toolkit. Access to Bedrock is available to those on the waitlist.
In addition, Amazon opened access to the CodeWhisperer AI coding assistant to everyone.
Attention devs, say hello to your new #AI coding companion. ☁️??
Amazon CodeWhisperer is now generally available & free for individual use. Skip digging through API specs, write code faster, & boost productivity. #AWS #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI
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— Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) April 13, 2023
The tool supports 15 programming languages, integrates with a range of development environments, and helps filter code.
CodeWhisperer is available for free.
In March, OpenAI introduced API for the ChatGPT chatbot and the Whisper speech-to-text model.