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Amazon Gets Into the LLM Game with Nova

By Jay Lagare on Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Amazon just got into the LLM arena with Amazon Nova. And they announced not one, not two, but SIX models!

Amazon Nova Micro: Text-only model delivering low-latency responses, ideal for language understanding, translation, reasoning, and code completion.
Amazon Nova Lite: Low-cost multimodal model, lightning-fast for processing text, image, and video inputs, suitable for interactive and high-volume applications.
Amazon Nova Pro: High-capability multimodal model with top accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency for diverse tasks, excelling at instruction following and agentic workflows.
Amazon Nova Premier: Coming soon. Likely a premium version of Nova Pro with more features and/or better performance.
Amazon Nova Canvas: Advanced image generation model for creating and editing professional-grade images from text or image prompts.
Amazon Nova Reel: Video generation model enabling high-quality video creation from text and images, with natural language controls for style and pacing.

The LLM landscape just got bigger and better!

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Renting GPUs With Vast.ai

By Jay Lagare on Saturday, December 21, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) require a lot of computing power. Specifically, you would want to have GPUs which have become the standard tool for computing-intensive applications because of their parallel processing capabilities, high throughput, and efficiency in handling the kinds of large-scale computations required for AI and ML.

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Creating A More Advanced Artificial Neural Network

By Jay Lagare on Monday, November 18, 2024

The basic artificial neural network we created doesn’t have the best accuracy. Though it performed somewhat well in the recognition of MNIST test data images, it didn’t do as well in the recognition of real-world images. To improve its performance, we can do some adjustments to our model and training data.

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Preprocessing Images For Recognition

By Jay Lagare on Friday, November 15, 2024

We have previously through the process of recognizing numbers utilizing our artificial neural network (ANN). If you haven’t gone through that post on, you can do so now. However, we ran the recognition task on images from the MNIST dataset. Even though we used the test data, it’s still cannot be considered real-world. It’s clean, well-labeled, and structured, with a lot of the noise and ambiguity removed.

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Number Recognition With An Artificial Neural Network

By Jay Lagare on Wednesday, November 13, 2024

We have previously created and trained a basic artificial neural network (ANN). If you haven’t gone through that post on, you can do so now. In this post, we’ll continue and go through the process of recognizing numbers utilizing the ANN model that we created.