AI21 Labs: Inside the engine of a large language model

    Amazon Bedrock

    GenAI Loft | San Francisco

    Generative AI

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    IN PERSON

    Language:

    English

    Level(s):

    300 - Advanced

    Join AI21 Labs and AWS for a night of generative AI knowledge sharing, as we look under the hood of Jamba, the first production grade Transformer+Mamba model; and we explore techniques for AI-assisted code generation. All AI enthusiasts and learners welcome.

    Agenda

    12:30 AM UTC

    Networking and light snacks

    1:00 AM UTC

    Jamba - The Benefits of a Hybrid SSM-Transformer Model

    Yuval Belfer | Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI21 Labs

    In this talk, we briefly dive into technical components of AI21’s Jamba model. Jamba, the first production grade Transformer+Mamba model, combines the quality of Transformers with the speed of Mamba. Jamba is built on top of an SSM-Transformer mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture. It is based on hybrid interleaving Transformer & SSM layers, enjoying the benefits of both architectures. We describe

    2:00 AM UTC

    AI Code Generation and Evaluation

    Anila Joshi & Kamran Razi | Applied Science Manager, AWS and Data Scientist, AWS

    Explore AI-assisted code generation, focusing on the integration of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with generative AI services on AWS. Learn best practices for optimizing code repositories, setting up rapid prototyping environments using Bedrock, and leveraging agentic workflows with Langgraph. We'll also cover the RAGAS framework for evaluating code, using custom metrics like CodeBleu.

    3:00 AM UTC

    Open Q&A and Networking

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