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Recently AWS released the new compute-intensive Amazon EC2 C5 instances, based on the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum processors. These instances are designed for compute-heavy applications, and offer a large performance improvement over the C4 instances. They also have additional memory per vCPU, and twice the performance for vector and floating-point workloads. In this […]

From autonomous robotics to state of-the-art computer vision, Caltech and Amazon have a lot in common, including the belief that pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will not only disrupt industries, but it will fundamentally change the nature of scientific research. We believe these technologies have the potential to transform […]

Out of all of the innovations that are being driven by cloud, the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are perhaps the most exciting. IDC, as an example, is forecasting that the market for AI systems to be $46 billion by 2020. This is up from $12.5 billion in 2017 and growing at […]

We are excited to announce the AWS Machine Learning Research Awards, a new program that funds university departments, faculty, PhD students, and post-docs that are conducting novel research in machine learning (ML). We are working with Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Harvard Medical School, The University of Washington, and the University of […]

In the first blog post in our autonomous vehicle series, you built your Donkey vehicle and deployed your pilot server onto an Amazon EC2 instance. In the second blog, you learned to drive the Donkey car, and the Donkey car learned to drive itself. In this blog post, we’ll cover the process of streaming telemetry […]

Matrix Analytics is helping to save lives. The Colorado-based startup uses deep learning on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to track disease progression for patients diagnosed with pulmonary nodules in their lungs. While often benign, careful monitoring and follow-up care are critical to knowing if and when those nodules will turn into malignant tumors. The company’s […]

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a research field in artificial intelligence that aims to develop computer programs’ understanding of human (natural) language. Even if you don’t know much about NLP, there is a good chance that you have been using it daily. Whenever you type a word using the virtual keyboard on your phone, it […]

AWS, NVIDIA, Stanford, EPFL, and UC Berkeley have joined forces to tackle clinical problems in biomechanics. The NIPS 2017 Learning to Run challenge brings together over 300 researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts from around the world to apply deep learning to medical research. The challenge will culminate at the international AI conference Neural Information Processing Systems […]

Because deep learning relies on the amount and quality of the data that is used to train it, companies spend a lot to get good image data. Typically, they use either expensive human annotation or other labor-intensive tasks, such as taking more photos of products or people. This approach is costly, and it doesn’t scale. […]

This is a guest post by Cambron Carter, Director of Engineering, and Iris Fu, Computer Vision Scientist at GumGum. In their own words, “GumGum is an artificial intelligence company with deep expertise in computer vision, which helps their customers unlock the value of images and videos produced daily across the web, social media, and broadcast […]