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French AI startup Mistral AI again looking for investors

French AI startup Mistral AI again looking for investors

French AI startup Mistral appears to have an unquenchable appetite for investor capital. The company is reportedly looking for hundreds of millions of euros, based on an assumed market valuation of over 4.6 billion euros. The company sees such a valuation as feasible, partly because of the perf... Read more

date7 days ago
AWS charges hefty fee to use Anthropic’s Claude Opus LLM

AWS charges hefty fee to use Anthropic’s Claude Opus LLM

AWS is now making all of Anthropic's Claude 3 LLM versions available through Amazon Bedrock. Recently, the hyperscaler added the largest variant Claude Opus to its portfolio. Using this model does come with a higher price tag. The fact AWS is making all of Anthropic's Claude 3-LLMs available thr... Read more

date8 days ago
Appian pairs Private AI with GenAI on Amazon (AWS) Bedrock

Appian pairs Private AI with GenAI on Amazon (AWS) Bedrock

Combination of Appian's services and technologies with Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker from AWS should make Private AI more widely available. Last year at Appian World, Appian unfolded its vision for AI. CEO Matt Calkins made no bones about it and wanted nothing to do with Public AI. That kind of A... Read more

date9 days ago
AWS is fined half a billion for patent infringement

AWS is fined half a billion for patent infringement

A US judge has ruled that AWS must pay up to $525 million (€490 million) to tech company Kove. In 2018, Kove sued AWS, claiming that its Amazon S3 storage service and database service, DynamoDB, infringed three patents. These patents enabled "hyperscalable distributed cloud storage," years bef... Read more

date14 days ago
AWS lays off hundreds of employees as competition catches up

AWS lays off hundreds of employees as competition catches up

AWS is laying off hundreds of employees active in sales, marketing and services. It says the round of layoffs is to streamline its operations, but experts argue that a disappointing growth figure relative to competitors is the real motive. SVP Matt Garman argues that AWS does not make such decis... Read more

date21 days ago
EU drops sovereignty rules for U.S. cloud providers

EU drops sovereignty rules for U.S. cloud providers

Cloud service providers seeking contracts within the EU will face less stringent sovereignty rules than previously anticipated. Europe appears to be removing a requirement that providers be independent of laws and regulations outside the EU. Large cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Googl... Read more

date21 days ago
Amazon Deadline Cloud makes VFX artists’ work easier

Amazon Deadline Cloud makes VFX artists’ work easier

VFX artists can now more easily run their workloads within AWS. The managed service Amazon Deadline Cloud is specifically designed to run rendering pipelines for large amounts of graphics and digital visual effects. High-quality visual effects consume a lot of processing power and therefore incu... Read more

date22 days ago
Amazon Connect gets new AI features for contact centers

Amazon Connect gets new AI features for contact centers

AWS' contact center suite, Amazon Connect, recently received several new updates with AI functionality. These include support for third-party applications, GenAI features for Amazon Connect Contact Lens and no-code features for Amazon Connect Chat. Amazon Connect also gets support for third-part... Read more

date30 days ago
Cloud players aren’t abolishing egress fees at all

Cloud players aren’t abolishing egress fees at all

After Google Cloud and AWS moved to abolish cloud egress fees, Microsoft Azure couldn't refrain from doing the same. From now on, all three major hyperscalers make it possible to pull all data away from their respective cloud platform for free. The catch is that only departing customers get this op... Read more

date1 month ago
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