Category: Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is a new state-of-the-art embedding model available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the industry’s first embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single unified model, enabling cross-modal retrieval and semantic search applications with leading accuracy, at industry-leading costs.

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]

Amazon has announced Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace that combines research, business intelligence, and automation tools to help users analyze data and streamline workflows all in one place.

Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]

Amazon Web Services announces Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, featuring advanced capabilities in coding, tool handling, and long-horizon tasks, with improvements in memory management, context processing, and industry-specific applications across finance, research, and cybersecurity sectors.

Wow, can you all believe it? We’re nearing the end of the year already. Next thing you know, AWS re:Invent will be here! This is our biggest event that takes place every year in Las Vegas from December 1st to December 5th where we reveal and release many of the things that we’ve been working […]

The Nova Act extension is a new IDE-integrated tool that enables developers to create browser automation agents using natural language through the Nova Act model, offering features like Builder Mode, chat capabilities, and predefined templates while streamlining the development process without leaving their preferred development environment.

Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community […]