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AWS announced the general availability of Trainium2-powered Amazon EC2 instances and new Trn2 UltraServers. The new Trn2 instances offer 30-40% better price performance than current GPU-based EC2 instances, featuring 16 Trainium2 chips providing 20.8 peak petaflops of compute. Trn2 UltraServers connect four Trn2 servers with NeuronLink interconnect, scaling up to 83.2 peak petaflops. AWS also unveiled Trainium3, their next-generation AI chip expected to be 4x more performant than Trn2 UltraServers, with availability planned for late 2025.

Amazon Web Services announced new Amazon S3 features making it the first cloud object store with fully-managed Apache Iceberg support. The key innovations include Amazon S3 Tables, delivering up to 3x faster query performance and 10x higher transactions per second for analytics workloads, and Amazon S3 Metadata, which automatically generates queryable metadata in near real-time.

S3 Tables introduces a new bucket type optimized for tabular data as Iceberg tables, while S3 Metadata streamlines data discovery by capturing and storing object metadata in S3 Tables. These features are Apache Iceberg table-compatible, allowing customers to query data using AWS analytics services and open source tools.

Twelve Labs, a startup specializing in multimodal AI for video content understanding, is partnering with AWS to enhance video searchability. The company's foundation models enable natural language searches within videos, analyzing actions, objects, and sounds. Using AWS technologies, Twelve Labs has achieved up to 10% faster training speeds while reducing costs by over 15%.

Their Marengo and Pegasus models can provide text summaries and audio translations in over 100 languages, making video content searchable and accessible. The technology allows developers to create applications for semantic video search across media, entertainment, gaming, and sports industries, enabling precise moment retrieval and automated highlight reel creation.

LG AI Research has developed EXAONEPath, a new pathology foundation model for cancer diagnosis, using AWS cloud infrastructure. The AI model can analyze microscopic tissue samples with 86.1% accuracy across six benchmarks, reducing genetic testing time from two weeks to under one minute. Using AWS services, including Amazon SageMaker and NVIDIA GPUs, LG AI Research trained the model on 285 million data points and 35,000 tissue samples, cutting data management costs by 35% and data preparation time by 95%. The model is part of EXAONE, LG's 300-billion-parameter multimodal foundation model.

IMDb has revealed its most popular movies, shows, and stars of 2024, based on actual page views from over 250 million monthly visitors. Deadpool & Wolverine topped the movie list, while True Detective led TV shows. Sydney Sweeney emerged as the Most Popular Star, with Glen Powell named Breakout Star of 2024. The year's top movies featured both franchise continuations like Dune: Part Two and original films. Streaming series debuts were notably successful, including The Penguin, Fallout, and Shogun.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its most successful Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event ever, spanning from November 21 to December 2. The event saw record sales and a record number of items sold, with customers saving billions of dollars. Millions of Echo and Fire TV devices were purchased, with Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick 4K among the best-sellers. Popular categories in the U.S. included Electronics, Toys, and Beauty, featuring items like Beats headphones, Samsung TVs, Barbie, and Shark vacuums.

Independent sellers, mostly small and medium-sized businesses, also had their largest event ever, accounting for over 60% of sales. Amazon continues to offer millions more deals worldwide with fast delivery options for Prime members. An independent study confirmed Amazon's prices were, on average, 14% lower than other leading U.S. retailers entering the holiday season. Customers can continue to find deals on a wide range of products through December 24.

AWS and SAP have announced GROW with SAP on AWS, making AWS the first cloud provider to offer this solution through its marketplace. This collaboration simplifies cloud ERP deployment, reducing implementation time from years to months with no upfront costs. The solution integrates with Amazon Bedrock for generative AI capabilities, complementing SAP's Joule copilot. The system leverages AWS Nitro System for enhanced performance and AWS Graviton chips for improved energy efficiency. The service will utilize Amazon Bedrock's foundation models from various AI companies, offering customers streamlined business operations and advanced AI applications.

AWS announced new data center components designed to support next-generation AI innovation and improve efficiency. Key improvements include simplified electrical and mechanical design achieving 99.9999% infrastructure availability, innovative cooling systems with liquid-to-chip capabilities, and enhanced power delivery supporting a 6x increase in rack power density. The updates will provide 12% more compute power while reducing mechanical energy consumption by 46% and concrete embodied carbon by 35%. Implementation will begin in early 2025 across AWS's global infrastructure, including 34 Regions and 108 Availability Zones.

Lotus Technology has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to advance its intelligent and luxury vehicle development. The partnership supports Lotus's Vision80 Strategy to become a global luxury technology brand by 2028. Using AWS's technologies including IoT, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI, Lotus will enhance its autonomous driving solutions, connected features, and vehicle personalization.

The company's ROBO Soul self-driving software and ROBO Galaxy platform run on AWS, enabling automated tasks like parking and highway driving. Lotus Connect, their connected-vehicle platform, provides remote vehicle control and monitoring with application latency under 2.2 seconds for its Digital Key feature. AWS also powers Lotus's 3D vehicle rendering system for customization and personalized car-buying experiences.