Synopsis: In this episode of the Techstrong AI video series, host Mike Vizard interviews Atul Deo, the general manager of Amazon Bedrock, Amazon's foundational large language model (LLM) platform. Atul discusses the one-year milestone of the Amazon Bedrock service, which provides developers with access to various LLMs via an API, allowing them to create AI-powered applications without needing deep knowledge of machine learning or infrastructure management. He highlights the diversity of models available through Bedrock, including those from Anthropic, AI21, Stability AI, and Amazon's own Titan models. Atul emphasizes the platform's pioneering role as the first cloud provider to offer such a service, tailored to suit different customer use cases with a broad selection of models.
The discussion also covers recent enhancements to the Bedrock platform, including the addition of new models like the CLA 3 series from Anthropic and the Llama 3 from Meta, among others. Atul explains the specialized tools that have been developed to aid developers, such as the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technique, which integrates specific information from documents into the queries handled by the LLMs for more relevant responses. Additionally, Atul touches on the introduction of 'guardrails' in Bedrock, which ensure data security by controlling the information fed into and generated by the models. This capability, coupled with the new model evaluation feature, assists customers in choosing the appropriate model for their specific applications, demonstrating Amazon Bedrock’s commitment to facilitating a flexible and secure AI development environment.
