TwelveLabs video understanding models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

Earlier this year, we preannounced that TwelveLabs video understanding models were coming to Amazon Bedrock. Today, we’re announcing the models are now available for searching through videos, classifying scenes, summarizing, and extracting insights with precision and reliability. TwelveLabs has introduced Marengo, a video embedding model proficient at performing tasks such as search and classification, and…

Databricks runs best on Azure

By Dustin Ward

Azure Databricks has clear advantages over other cloud service providers This blog is a supplement to the Azure Databricks: Differentiated Synergy blog post and continues to define the differentiation for Azure Databricks in the cloud data analytics and AI landscape. Azure Databricks: Powering analytics for the data-driven enterprise In today’s data-driven world, organizations are seeking…

Reasoning reimagined: Introducing Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning

By Dustin Ward

State of the art architecture redefines speed for reasoning models Microsoft is excited to unveil a new edition to the Phi model family: Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning. Purpose-built for scenarios where compute, memory, and latency are tightly constrained, this new model is engineered to bring advanced reasoning capabilities to edge devices, mobile applications, and other resource-constrained environments. This…

New Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs for the highest AI performance

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6e-GB200 UltraServers, accelerated by NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 to offer the highest GPU performance for AI training and inference. Amazon EC2 UltraServers connect multiple EC2 instances using a dedicated, high-bandwidth, and low-latency accelerator interconnect across these instances. The NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips connect…

Introducing AWS Builder Center: A new home for the AWS builder community

By Dustin Ward

We really love builders at AWS. We’re constantly thinking of new ways to help technical communities thrive and create spaces like AWS Developer Center and community.aws where people can connect and share their knowledge and experiences. Today, we’re announcing AWS Builder Center, a new home for builders to access all builder resources, engage with the…