AWS offerings in foundation models
On AWS, as you’ve seen throughout the book, you have literally hundreds of ways to optimize your foundation model development and operationalization. Let’s now look at a few ways AWS is explicitly investing to improve the customer experience in this domain:
- SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Model Hub: Announced in preview at re:Invent 2022, this is an option for pointing to foundation models nicely packaged in the SageMaker environment. This includes both open source models such as BLOOM and Flan-T5 from Hugging Face, and proprietary models such as AI21 Jurassic. A list of all the foundation models is available here (5). To date, we have nearly 20 foundation models, all available for hosting in your own secure environments. Any data you use to interact with or fine-tune models on the Foundation Model Hub is not shared with providers. You can also optimize costs by selecting the instances yourself. We have tens of example notebooks...
