Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for Slurm clusters

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for Slurm clusters

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs for Slurm-orchestrated clusters, enabling customers to deploy clusters with pre-configured, security-hardened environments that meet their specific organizational requirements. Customers deploying AI/ML workloads on HyperPod Slurm clusters need customized environments that meet strict security,…
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today, AWS announced the availability of Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This model from Mistral AI is a multilingual, real-time speech-transcription model, enabling customers to build low-latency speech applications on…
Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today, AWS announced the availability of Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These models from Qwen are designed for information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, enabling customers to build comprehensive…