Favorite This post was co-authored with Laura Lee Williams and John Jabara from University Startups. University Startups, headquartered in Bethesda, MD, was founded in 2020 to empower high school students to expand their education beyond a traditional curriculum. University Startups is focused on special education and related services in school

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Favorite Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered enterprise assistant that helps organizations unlock value from their data. By connecting to enterprise data sources, employees can use Amazon Q Business to quickly find answers, generate content, and automate tasks—from accessing HR policies to streamlining IT support workflows, all while respecting

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Favorite Upgrading legacy systems has become increasingly important to stay competitive in today’s market as outdated infrastructure can cost organizations time, money, and market position. However, modernization efforts face challenges like time-consuming architecture reviews, complex migrations, and fragmented systems. These delays not only impact engineering teams but have broader impacts

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Favorite Intelligent document processing (IDP) is a technology to automate the extraction, analysis, and interpretation of critical information from a wide range of documents. By using advanced machine learning (ML) and natural language processing algorithms, IDP solutions can efficiently extract and process structured data from unstructured text, streamlining document-centric workflows.

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Favorite Data analysis often presents significant challenges for business users who aren’t proficient in SQL. Traditional methods require technical expertise to query databases, leading to delayed insights and dependence on data teams. Many organizations struggle with making their data accessible to business users while maintaining the analytical capabilities of Amazon

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Favorite AI assistants that forget what you told them 5 minutes ago aren’t very helpful. While large language models (LLMs) excel at generating human-like responses, they are fundamentally stateless—they don’t retain information between interactions. This forces developers to build custom memory systems to track conversation history, remember user preferences, and

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Favorite Agentic AI is revolutionizing the financial services industry through its ability to make autonomous decisions and adapt in real time, moving well beyond traditional automation. Imagine an AI assistant that can analyze quarterly earnings reports, compare them against industry expectations, and generate insights about future performance. This seemingly straightforward

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Favorite At Amazon, our team builds Rufus, a generative AI-powered shopping assistant that serves millions of customers at immense scale. However, deploying Rufus at scale introduces significant challenges that must be carefully navigated. Rufus is powered by a custom-built large language model (LLM). As the model’s complexity increased, we prioritized

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Favorite This is a guest post co-written with Scott Likens, Ambuj Gupta, Adam Hood, Chantal Hudson, Priyanka Mukhopadhyay, Deniz Konak Ozturk, and Kevin Paul from PwC Organizations are deploying generative AI solutions while balancing accuracy, security, and compliance. In this globally competitive environment, scale matters less, speed matters more, and

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Favorite Organizations are increasingly excited about the potential of AI agents, but many find themselves stuck in what we call “proof of concept purgatory”—where promising agent prototypes struggle to make the leap to production deployment. In our conversations with customers, we’ve heard consistent challenges that block the path from experimentation

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