Amazon Net Companies Korea director Ham Kee-ho speaks throughout his keynote speech on the AWS Summit Seoul 2024 held in southern Seoul’s Coex on Thursday. [AWS]
Korean purchasers utilizing cloud computing options and AI chips from Amazon Net Companies (AWS) can prioritize sustainability and value optimization by way of generative AI, AWS mentioned on Thursday.
Korean purchasers are significantly considering lowering their carbon footprint, which may be achieved utilizing the AWS Graviton processor, designed to supply a high-performance computing setting with an emphasis on vitality effectivity.
“Korea has the second-largest person base inside the Asia-Pacific area that makes use of Graviton,” AWS Korea Director Ham Kee-ho famous on the AWS Summit Seoul 2024 hosted in southern Seoul’s Coex. The annual occasion gathers IT specialists and enterprise leaders to showcase situations of purchasers using AWS providers.
One other realm of curiosity for Korean firms is minimizing prices when using AI. Native demand for 2 of AWS’s homegrown AI chips, AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia — each designed to optimize graphics processing unit (GPU) efficiency and cut back prices — is swiftly on the rise, in response to Ham.
“Home digital human startup Klleon is a consultant instance of utilizing Inferentia,” he mentioned.
SK Telecom, a significant Korean cell provider, is one other AWS shopper at the moment using Amazon Bedrock, a completely managed cloud service that provides a variety of high-performing basis fashions accessible to be used by way of a unified utility programming interface (API).
Utilizing Bedrock, purchasers can simply develop AI functions by fine-tuning present massive language fashions (LLMs) with their very own knowledge and including features like retrieval-augmented technology (RAG) know-how.
“We’re growing telco-specific LLMs by way of fine-tuning LLMs and utilizing RAG know-how on Bedrock,” mentioned SK Telecom’s Chung Suk-geun, head of worldwide AI tech division. “We plan to launch the telco LLM and private AI assistant service primarily based on this product inside the second half of this 12 months.”
BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]
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