Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi has trained its large language model Falcon 40B on the cloud provider’s infrastructure.

The achievement is said to mark a significant milestone in the collaboration between AWS and TII, since both AWS and TII are attempting to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence research and development. The Falcon 40B model, with an impressive 40-billion-parameter capacity, has shown high performance and accuracy, earning the top spot on Hugging Face’s Open LLM Leaderboard.

Falcon 40B is now available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and is claimed to open up a world of possibilities for businesses and organizations seeking to leverage cutting-edge language models without the burden of building their models from scratch. Customers can access Falcon 40B via Amazon SageMaker to tap into its capabilities for applications such as translation, question-answering, summarization and image identification.

In June 2023, it probably goes without saying that AI is the hottest thing since sliced bread and the Nasdaq has surged as investors will pile money into any company that has a dot AI domain name or claims to be using AI.

AWS isn’t an AI startup, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not paying attention. Falcon 40B shows that Amazon is serious about AI and large language models and seeks to be a leader in the field. With the successful training of the Falcon 40B model on AWS, Amazon is proving it is committed to being a leader in AI and LLM.

Along with the Falcon 40B news, AWS also announced today an expanded relationship with Persistent Systems Ltd., an Indian digital services company that caters to the banking and financial services industry.

Under the expanded partnership, Persistent Systems will use Amazon CodeWhisperer to allow their developers to generate code with comments, helping them bypass time-consuming development tasks and accelerate their creation of new solutions.

Amazon launched CodeWhisperer in June 2022, an artificial intelligence-powered service that is designed to provide coding assistance. AWS said that it had trained CodeWhisperer on billions of lines of code from open-source projects, internal code repositories and other sources. The service is capable of generating more than 10 lines of code at a time.

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