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Amazon has officially launched AgentCore, its platform for running AI agents, making it generally available as part of Amazon Bedrock. AgentCore is designed to help companies quickly integrate AI agents into real-world applications, with support for models and frameworks like OpenAI, Gemini, and LangGraph. The platform offers runtime environments, access to web apps, API integration, and built-in storage and monitoring through CloudWatch.
Amazon says companies including Sony, Ericsson, and Cohere Health are already using AgentCore for manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare. AgentCore is now available in nine AWS regions.
Microsoft has introduced its first in-house image generation model, MAI-Image-1. The model currently ranks ninth among text-to-image systems on LMArena. According to Microsoft AI, MAI-Image-1 was designed to avoid repetitive or overly generic results. The team incorporated feedback from creative industry professionals to fine-tune the model. It performs especially well at producing photorealistic images, capturing details like lighting effects and landscapes, and runs faster than many larger models.
The model is available for testing on LMArena and will soon be integrated into Copilot and Bing Image Creator. Microsoft emphasizes its focus on safe and responsible outputs. MAI-Image-1 expands the company’s own AI lineup, which also includes the speech generation model MAI-Voice-1 and the chatbot MAI-1-preview.
