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AWS Introduces Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to Streamline ML Workflows
AWS announced that Amazon SageMaker Studio now includes Amazon Q Developer as a new capability. This generative AI-powered assistant is built natively into SageMaker’s JupyterLab experience and provides recommendations for the best tools for each task, step-by-step guidance, code generation, and troubleshooting assistance.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-4o mini Model with Improved Jailbreak Resistance
OpenAI released GPT-4o mini, a smaller version of their flagship GPT-4o model. GPT-4o mini outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo on several LLM benchmarks and is OpenAI's first model trained with an instruction hierarchy method that improves the model's resistance to jailbreaks and system prompt extraction.
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Spring Ecosystem Delivers Numerous Milestone Releases
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 15th, 2024, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1; Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6; Spring Security 6.4.0-M1; Spring Session 3.4.0-M1; Spring Integration 6.4.0-M1; and Spring Modulith 1.3.0-M1; Spring AMQP 3.2.0-M1; and Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M1.
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Redis Improves Performance of Vector Semantic Search with Multi-Threaded Query Engine
Redis, the in-memory data structure store, has recently released its enhanced Redis Query Engine. This comes at a time when vector databases are gaining prominence due to their importance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for GenAI applications. Redis announced significant improvements to its Query Engine, using multi-threading to enhance query throughput while maintaining low latency.
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MySQL 9.0 Innovation Release Now Available
On July 1st, Oracle announced the release of MySQL 8.0.38, the initial update for the 8.4 Long Term Support (LTS) series, and the inaugural MySQL 9.0 release. The Innovation release introduces new features, such as vector and JavaScript support. In contrast, the two LTS releases focus on stability, providing security updates, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
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Google Open Sources 27B Parameter Gemma 2 Language Model
Google DeepMind recently open-sourced Gemma 2, the next generation of their family of small language models. Google made several improvements to the Gemma architecture and used knowledge distillation to give the models state-of-the-art performance: Gemma 2 outperforms other models of comparable size and is competitive with models 2x larger.
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Amazon Q Apps Aim to Simplify the Creation of Generative AI Apps for the Enterprise
Part of its Amazon Q Business offering, Amazon Q Apps enable the creation of generative AI-powered apps integrating enterprise data that can be shared securely within an organization. Along with their general availability, Amazon announced new APIs for Amazon Q Apps and more granular data source definition.
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Amazon SageMaker Now Offers Managed MLflow Capability for Enhanced Experiment Tracking
AWS has announced the general availability of MLflow capability in Amazon SageMaker. MLflow is an open-source tool commonly used for managing ML experiments. Users can now compare model performance, parameters, and metrics across experiments in the MLflow UI, keep track of their best models in the MLflow Model Registry, and automatically register them as a SageMaker model.
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OpenAI's CriticGPT Catches Errors in Code Generated by ChatGPT
OpenAI recently published a paper about CriticGPT, a version of GPT-4 fine-tuned to critique code generated by ChatGPT. When compared with human evaluators, CriticGPT catches more bugs and produces better critiques. OpenAI plans to use CriticGPT to improve future versions of their models.
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Java News Roundup: Project Leyden Early-Access Builds, LangChain4j, JReleaser, Groovy
This week's Java roundup for July 1st, 2024, features news highlighting: the debut of the Project Leyden early-access builds, LangChain4j 0.32.0, JReleaser 1.13.0, Apache Groovy point and milestone releases and updates on Jakarta EE 11 and initial discussions on Jakarta EE 12.
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Microsoft Releases .NET 9 Preview 5
Last month, Microsoft released the fifth preview of .NET 9. This preview brings performance improvements and features such as enhanced AI capabilities, prioritized unbounded channel, substring searching with SearchValues, and more flexible active linking in OpenTelemetry.
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Distill CLI: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Unveils Rust-Powered Media Summarization Tool
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has recently launched Distill CLI, a personal project written in Rust. The open-source tool leverages Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to generate summaries of audio recordings directly from the command line.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M4, MicroProfile, InfoQ Dev Summit, KCDC, Commonhaus Foundation
This week's Java roundup for June 24th, 2024, features news highlighting: the Milestone 4 release of Jakarta EE 11; release candidates for updated MicroProfile specifications targeted for MicroProfile 7.0; the first-ever InfoQ Dev Summit Boston conference; the 2024 Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC); and new projects that have joined the Commonhaus Foundation.
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Amazon Brings AI Assistant to Software Development as Part of Amazon Q Suite
Amazon has recently released Amazon Q Developer Agent, an AI-powered assistant that uses natural language input from developers to generate features, bug fixes, and unit tests within an integrated development environment (IDE). It employs large language models and generative AI to understand a developer's natural language request, and then generate the necessary code changes.
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How Data Mesh Platforms Connect Data Producers and Consumers
A challenge that companies often face when exploiting their data in data warehouses or data lakes is that ownership of analytical data is weak or non-existent, and quality can suffer as a result. A data mesh is an organizational paradigm shift in how companies create value from data where responsibilities go back into the hands of producers and consumers.