Favorite Information retrieval systems have powered the information age through their ability to crawl and sift through massive amounts of data and quickly return accurate and relevant results. These systems, such as search engines and databases, typically work by indexing on keywords and fields contained in data files. However, much

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Favorite In recent years, we have seen a big increase in the size of large language models (LLMs) used to solve natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and text summarization. Larger models with more parameters, which are in the order of hundreds of billions at the time

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Favorite Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a state-of-the-art approach to building question answering systems that combines the strengths of retrieval and foundation models (FMs). RAG models first retrieve relevant information from a large corpus of text and then use a FM to synthesize an answer based on the retrieved information.

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Favorite This blog is part of the series, Generative AI and AI/ML in Capital Markets and Financial Services. Company earnings calls are crucial events that provide transparency into a company’s financial health and prospects. Earnings reports detail a firm’s financials over a specific period, including revenue, net income, earnings per

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Favorite GraphStorm is a low-code enterprise graph machine learning (GML) framework to build, train, and deploy graph ML solutions on complex enterprise-scale graphs in days instead of months. With GraphStorm, you can build solutions that directly take into account the structure of relationships or interactions between billions of entities, which

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Favorite This is a guest post co-written with Vicente Cruz Mínguez, Head of Data and Advanced Analytics at Cepsa Química, and Marcos Fernández Díaz, Senior Data Scientist at Keepler. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a transformative force, poised to disrupt and reshape businesses of all sizes and

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Favorite Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities needed to

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Favorite Underwriting is a fundamental function within the insurance industry, serving as the foundation for risk assessment and management. Underwriters are responsible for evaluating insurance applications, determining the level of risk associated with each applicant, and making decisions on whether to accept or reject the application based on the insurer’s

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Favorite As generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications become more prevalent, maintaining responsible AI principles becomes essential. Without proper safeguards, large language models (LLMs) can potentially generate harmful, biased, or inappropriate content, posing risks to individuals and organizations. Applying guardrails helps mitigate these risks by enforcing policies and guidelines that align

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Favorite Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to supporting the development of cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by companies and organizations across the globe. As part of this commitment, AWS Japan announced the AWS LLM Development Support Program (LLM Program), through which we’ve had the privilege of working alongside

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