Home topics news via aws.amazon.com News News Four Aussie AI startups join AWS Gen AI Program Yajush Gupta September 16, 2024 Four Australian startups, Contact Harald, Marqo, Relevance AI, and Splash Music, have been chosen to join the prestigious AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator . The companies, recognized for their innovative AI applications, will receive support from Amazon Web Services to scale their businesses and contribute to the global AI landscape. As part of AWS’s US $230 million commitment to accelerate the creation of applications worldwide, the AWS Generative AI Accelerator program provides startups, especially early-stage companies, with AWS credits, mentorship, and education to further their use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. Participants gain access to AWS compute, storage, and database technologies, as well as AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia2 , energy-efficient AI chips that offer high performance at the lowest cost. The credits can also be used on Amazon SageMaker , a fully managed service that helps companies build and train their own foundation models (FMs), as well as to access models and tools to easily and securely build generative AI applications through Amazon Bedrock . The 10-week program matches participants with both business and technical mentors based on their industry, and chosen startups will receive up to US$1 million each in AWS credits to help them build, train, test, and launch their generative AI solutions. Participants will also have access to technology and technical sessions from program presenting partner NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated