One unifying feature of the companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 is the foundational technologies they provide for customers to build innovative solutions that complement and accelerate their business.
With GenAI at the forefront of C-suite conversations, many of the leading technology providers, and the Cloud Wars companies in particular, are developing platforms that enable organizations to create applications leveraging GenAI this. Amazon’s flagship offering is Amazon Bedrock.
Bedrock stands out in terms of foundational large language models (LLMs) available to users via a single API and the resulting opportunities they have to experiment with and tailor them to their business needs. Now, Amazon has expanded its model selection by adding Anthropic’s Claude 3.
Customer Benefits
As well as existing foundational models from Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock customers can currently utilize models from AI21 Labs, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon. With this latest development, Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku enter the line-up, with Sonnet available today and Opus and Haiku due in the coming weeks.
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The Claude 3 family represents a series of models of varying capabilities starting with Claude 3 Haiku and culminating with Claude 3 Opus, the most advanced model. Opus has set a benchmark in the fields of reasoning, math, and coding, and it outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4 in these areas.
For the majority of workloads, Sonnet is twice the speed of earlier models in the Claude series, while Haiku is the fastest compact model in its class and one of the most cost-effective in this category.
The Claude 3 models are highly versatile and enable customers to support a wide range of use cases such as automation, the development of user-facing apps, and accelerated R&D. Other key benefits of the Claude 3 series include:
- Multilingual understanding, including Spanish, Japanese, and French
- Low levels of hallucinations
- Higher accuracy than many competing models
- Advanced vision capabilities for diverse data processing
Building on Existing Relationship
This latest announcement from Amazon builds on the company’s existing relationship with Anthropic, which includes a commitment to continually providing AWS customers with the most cutting-edge foundation models. Another part of this commitment is Anthropic’s intention to use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy the company’s foundation models.
Anthropic will also collaborate with Amazon on the development of Trainium and Inferentia, with Amazon promising to invest up to $4 billion in the company.
“We’ve been working with Anthropic to bring the most advanced generative AI technologies to customers worldwide, including building on top of our best-in-class infrastructure such as AWS Tranium. We’re thrilled to continue that history with the addition of Claude 3 models on Amazon Bedrock,” said Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and AI at AWS.
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“Our customers and partners continue to be excited by the advanced applications they can build with Claude on Amazon Bedrock, and the unmatched ability they have to quickly, securely, and responsibly deploy generative AI applications, using differentiated capabilities like knowledge bases, guardrails, and model evaluation, into production to provide new experiences for their end users.
Closing Thoughts
Amazon Bedrock already stood out through the wealth of foundation models it supports and the degree to which it enables customers to experiment with them. The addition of Anthropic’s latest models is a major boost to the platform, providing yet more choice while also championing some of the best GenAI technology available.
However, it’s important to remember that model access alone doesn’t make Amazon Bedrock such an important platform. It’s also about the built-in responsible AI protocols, customization tools, integrated AI agents, and more that not only provide access to best-in-class models but also give users the tools to operationalize them.
