Category: AWS re:Invent

The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first global autonomous racing league powered by machine learning (ML). Over the past 6 years, a diverse community of over 560,000 builders from more than 150 countries worldwide have participated in the League to learn ML fundamentals hands-on through the fun of friendly autonomous racing. After an 8-month season of nail-biting virtual qualifiers, finalists convened in person at re:Invent in Las Vegas for one final showdown to compete for prizes and glory in the high-stakes, winner-take-all AWS DeepRacer League Championship.

In AWS DeepRacer: How to master physical racing?, I wrote in detail about some aspects relevant to racing AWS DeepRacer in the physical world. The previous post was left open-ended—with one last Championship Final left, it was too early to share all my secrets. Now that AWS re:Invent is over, it’s time to share my strategy, how I prepared, and how it went in the end.

We spoke with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and AI, shortly after AWS re:Invent 2024 to hear his impressions—and to get insights on how the latest AWS innovations help meet the real-world needs of customers as they build and scale transformative generative AI applications.

In this post, we explore how to deploy AI models from SageMaker JumpStart and use them with Amazon Bedrock’s powerful features. Users can combine SageMaker JumpStart’s model hosting with Bedrock’s security and monitoring tools. We demonstrate this using the Gemma 2 9B Instruct model as an example, showing how to deploy it and use Bedrock’s advanced capabilities.

In this blog post, I will look at what makes physical AWS DeepRacer racing—a real car on a real track—different to racing in the virtual world—a model in a simulated 3D environment. I will cover the basics, the differences in virtual compared to physical, and what steps I have taken to get a deeper understanding of the challenge.

In this post, we demonstrate Embodied AI Chess with Amazon Bedrock, bringing a new dimension to traditional chess through generative AI capabilities. Our setup features a smart chess board that can detect moves in real time, paired with two robotic arms executing those moves. Each arm is controlled by different FMs—base or custom. This physical implementation allows you to observe and experiment with how different generative AI models approach complex gaming strategies in real-world chess matches.

In this attendee guide, we’re highlighting a few of our favorite sessions to give you a glimpse into what’s in store. To help you plan your agenda for this year’s re:Invent, here are some highlights of the generative AI and ML sessions. Visit the session catalog to learn about all our generative AI and ML sessions.

Launched in 2019, Amazon SageMaker Studio provides one place for all end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows, from data preparation, building and experimentation, training, hosting, and monitoring. As we continue to innovate to increase data science productivity, we’re excited to announce the improved SageMaker Studio experience, which allows users to select the managed Integrated Development Environment (IDE) […]

Yes, the AWS re:Invent season is upon us and as always, the place to be is Las Vegas! You marked your calendars, you booked your hotel, and you even purchased the airfare. Now all you need is some guidance on generative AI and machine learning (ML) sessions to attend at this twelfth edition of re:Invent. And although generative AI has appeared in previous events, this year we’re taking it to the next level. In addition to several exciting announcements during keynotes, most of the sessions in our track will feature generative AI in one form or another, so we can truly call our track “Generative AI and ML.” In this post, we give you a sense of how the track is organized and highlight a few sessions we think you’ll like. And although our track focuses on generative AI, many other tracks have related sessions. Use the “Generative AI” tag as you are browsing the session catalog to find them.

AWS re:Invent season is upon us again! Just a few days to go until re:Invent takes place for the 11th year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team at AWS has been working hard to offer amazing content, an outstanding AWS DeepRacer experience, and much more. In this post, we give […]