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AWS Expands SageMaker AI Capabilities

AWS is expanding its SageMaker platform to support advanced AI workloads, including speaker-labeled audio transcription and large-scale model training. The latest development demonstrates how to train the Qwen3-VL-8B model using SkyRL on SageMaker HyperPod.

  1. AWS boosts MoE RL training throughput by 40% with EFA and DeepEP on EKS

    AWS outlines an architecture combining Amazon EKS, Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), and DeepEP to accelerate Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning (RL) training. The setup addresses three key…

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  2. AWS shows how to train Qwen3-VL-8B with SkyRL on SageMaker HyperPod

    AWS’s Machine Learning Blog demonstrated how to use SkyRL, an open-source reinforcement learning framework, to train Qwen3-VL-8B, a vision-language model, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The setup…

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  3. AWS adds WhisperX to SageMaker for speaker-labeled audio transcription

    AWS released a WhisperX-based deep learning container for Amazon SageMaker that adds speaker diarization and per-word timestamps to OpenAI’s Whisper model. The container supports real-time…

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