Artificial Intelligence
Author: Keita Watanabe
Beyond accelerators: Lessons from building foundation models on AWS with Japan’s GENIAC program
In 2024, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) launched the Generative AI Accelerator Challenge (GENIAC)—a Japanese national program to boost generative AI by providing companies with funding, mentorship, and massive compute resources for foundation model (FM) development. AWS was selected as the cloud provider for GENIAC’s second cycle (cycle 2). It provided infrastructure and technical guidance for 12 participating organizations.
Introducing Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
This post is designed for Kubernetes cluster administrators and ML scientists, providing an overview of the key features that SageMaker HyperPod introduces to facilitate large-scale model training on an EKS cluster.