Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, April 14th, 2023.

I'm Jackson Bird filling in for Brian McCullough today. AWS has begun offering customers access to

LLCs made by Anthropic Stability AI and AI 21 labs

as they look to be a neutral platform for generative AI features.

What's app is rolling out new verification and protection features including defenses

against simjacking and social engineering attacks,

Twitter has just increased the character limit to 10,000 for blue subscribers

and your weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Amazon Web Services has officially entered the Gen AI ring.

Yesterday AWS announced a platform called Bedrock

which will offer customers access to large language models made by

Anthropic Stability AI, AI 21 labs, and AWS's own Titan.

As Wired put it, quote,

AWS doesn't have a chat gpt rival,

but it wants to sell you the tools you need to build one end quote and

quoting the wall street journal unlike Google and Microsoft which have announced

products for the general public,

AWS is targeting corporate customers.

In addition to new AI tools,

the company is expanding access to custom-made chips

that it says can run AI software more efficiently and cheaply than

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