As the LatestSale team continue to summarize the AWS keynote highlights as featured during the AWS GenAI Data Day on 15th October 2024, we next turn to Rahul Pathak, VP of GenAI & AI/ML at Amazon Web Services. Pathak’s keynote centred on exploration as he explained the journey from business idea to production innovation powered by AI. AWS Bedrock Mix and Match Model Amazon Bedrock is known as an industry standard fully managed service designed to streamline the integration of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers, including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, and others such as Meta and Mistral AI. This platform enables businesses to experiment with and evaluate top FMs for various use cases through a single API. Amazon Bedrock also allows…
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AWS GenAI Data Day 15102024, Frances Pye Anthropic Keynote Highlights
Frances Pye, Strategic Partnerships, Anthropic commenced her AWS Data Day 2024 session on 15th October 2024, by reiterating that Anthropic operates as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), prioritizing public good alongside financial returns via a Long-Term Benefit Trust. Pye insisted that aligning technological progress with human values was paramount so that concerns over AI’s potential for harm with robust safety mechanisms could be established. This includes, as highlighted by Tom Skiecke in Medium.com, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, and computational linguistics. The research power’s goal is to improve AI technology and create language models capable of comprehending and generating human language better. ANTHROPIC MISSION OVERVIEW Anthropic’s mission to ensure transformative AI supports societal needs, facilitates project collaboration alongside stakeholders with a shared vision….
AWS GenAI and Data Day 15102024 David Elliot AWS Keynote Highlights
In case you missed it, AWS did it again! An exhilarating showcase of AI and Data brilliance engulfed the Latestsale.com Founder at the AWS GenAI Data Day Extravaganza held close to London’s financial district on 15th October 2024. The Business Track stage inaugurated with Keynote speakers David Elliott, Director, UKI SA, Amazon Web Services, Frances Pye, Strategic Partnerships, Anthropic, Mark Briers, Director of Data Science & AI of BT Group and Rahul Pathak, VP of GenAI & AI/ML, Amazon Web Services. DAVID ELLIOT KEYNOTE David Elliot’s opinion piece highlighted the projected digital economic growth of £520bn that is expected to be added to the UK economy by the end of 2030. Elliot attests to a breakthrough year throughout 2023 for Gen AI use…
Highlights: AWS GenAI Loft 2024 London Closes with Sequoia
LatestSale.com Founder & Tech #Founders with strong affiliations to Amazon Web Services dropped everything on 22/10/2024 and headed to the finale of the AWS GenAI Loft London meet up covering the AWS GenAI and Bedrock Showcase. In attendance to this spectacular forum: Sequoia Capital represented by the #VC firm’s veteran Growth Partner Matt Miller, alongside unicorn Synthesia CEO and Co-Founder Victor Riparbelli and GTM Director and European Lead Hugo Rayne of Elevenlabs. VC Accessibility for startups Frances Pye, Head of European Partnerships at Anthropic followed on to highlight the “Frontier AI Systems Your Team Can Trust,” theme highlighting Anthropic’s consistent achievements including building the best LLM twice in 2024, whilst Tricia Troth Amazon Web Services General Manager, Startups UK & Ireland introduced the #Magic…
Highlights: AWS GenAI Loft 2024 London Opens with Lightspeed
Highlights: Monday 30th September 2024 saw the official start of the AWS GenAI Loft opening event and launch party in London with pivotal speakers at the helm. Before meeting the panel of speakers, attendees networked with refreshments from the start, comparing notes on best practice AI implementation. After a stellar welcome from Tricia Troth, AWS General Manager of UK & Ireland start ups, Troth introduced the session by highlighting the importance of VC accessibility. It all kicked off with Venture Capitalist Antoine Moyroud a Lightspeed Partner. His synopsis on the current fundraising landscape for emerging tech enterprises was speckled with a touch of magic. Moyroud detailed the importance attributed to the status of AI capital deployment and explained how best to navigate opportunities and challenges…
Rare Founders London’s Largest Demo Day 14102024 Highlights
The second instalment of London’s Largest Demo Day Investor and Founder’s Conference 2024, dubbed Series 1: Episode 2, got off to a great start in the heart of Mayfair, London on 14th October 2024, with a greatly enthused Rare Founders Founder Vasily Alekseenko at the helm alongside some new team members including Events Manager Fraya Brinkman and some truly spectacular volunteers. Held at the home of The Royal Society of Medicine, this charming venue whose team’s hospitality and setting never ceases to amaze, ensured attendees were spoilt for choice with a welcome selection of pastries at the start of the day and refreshing beverages during the evening session thanks to an array of sponsors. 100 founders pitched on two stages as follows: DEMO DAY…
European Quantum Industry Consortium Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing
27th September 2024, the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) hosted its first ever webinar, under the Q WAVE banner, with the topic the Quantum industry is most concerned with as we all work towards rolling out our quantum enabled tools. “The journey towards fault-tolerant quantum computing in Europe” much anticipated webinar began with guest speakers on board who were able to explain what efforts they were making in advancing quantum error correction. ALICE & BOB + RIVERLANE Attendees were in great company with Earl Campbell, VP of Quantum Science at Riverlane and Jérémie Guillaud, Chief of Theory at Alice & Bob at the helm. The webinar was moderated by David Morcuende, the QuIC Network Manager. Earl Campbell tailored his session on QEC software…
Annual Start up Grind Summit 2024 ENDS: Fundraising in the Era of AI
PART 5/5 The Thursday 26th September 2024 San Francisco annual Startup Grind Summit: AI & Fundraising featured countless pivotal sessions, too many to name. We close off this five part blog post series and highlight one such session; Fundraising in the Era of AI, led by Gaurav Misra Co-Founder and CEO of Captions, a video-editing and AI research company headquartered in New York City, and Damir Becirovic, a Partner at Index Ventures, who has a self-proclaimed passion for the intersection of technology and humanity and solutions likely to improve the lives of millions around the world. IS IT JUST TALK? Captions Co-Founder and CEO Gaurav Misra, a former machine learning engineer at Snapchat who identifies with fast growth strategies, enjoys a background in…
AI & Fundraising Startup Grind Summit 2024: Gradient Seed to Series A
PART 4/5 Andrew Brackin, Partner at Gradient, Google’s AI seed fund also known for co-founding Vial, a tech-enabled clinical trial platform that raised over $100M in VC funding from top tier firms, led the enlightening workshop “Seed to Series A Fundraising” at the AI & Fundraising Startup Grind Summit 2024. The Andrew Brackin list of PRE SEED must haves: At pre seed, Founders should have a great team, and a good idea with the beginnings of an MVP and be under a $10-12M market cap. Pre seed fundraising may also be under $1M, with accelerators fitting into this model. Brackin highlighted various pre seed programmes on offer such as the Sequoia Arc programme. The Andrew Brackin list of SEED ROUND must haves:…
AI & Fundraising Q3 2024 Startup Grind Summit: Snowflake KPIs in AI
PART 3/5 Attendees to the Annual AI & Fundraising Q3 2024 Startup Grind Summit explored alongside Snowflake Ventures, that invests in companies that are committed to mobilizing data and expanding opportunities in the Data Cloud, “KPIs in AI: Product Development, Go-to-Market Strategies, and Operations.” The traits that make startups successful from a VC perspective were pinpointed. The Snowflake team examined effective fundraising strategies and explored the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into businesses. In attendance, Snowflake Ventures Director Harsha Kapre and Phoebe He, Product Marketing Lead, Apps at Snowflake. Snowflake Inc. is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, and “operates a platform that provides data storage via cloud computing and allows for data analysis and simultaneous access of data sets with minimal latency. It…