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With its AI-driven automated evaluation and security platform, Patronus helps its customers use large language models (LLMs) confidently and responsibly while minimizing the risk of errors. The startup’s aim is to make AI models more trustworthy and more usable.

What if artificial intelligence (AI) could augment our ability to really listen and truly relate to others? What if technology could draw upon our collective lived experiences and help us be more human to each other? These are the questions Dr. Grin Lord, clinical psychologist and founder of conversation analytics company mpathic, has spent the last 15 years chasing.

As we celebrate Earth Day, we’re thrilled to present a round up of the founders from “Saving the Earth in 60 Seconds, One Startup at a Time.” Check out their pitches to see if they can make their case in just 60 seconds.

Today, we’re taking another step to make it even easier for founders to build and iterate on their solutions using the latest technologies. We’re making AWS Activate credits redeemable for third-party models on Amazon Bedrock, our fully-managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies, like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon via a single API.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words – and, according to Forrester Research, a minute of video may be worth 1.8 million words. For businesses ranging from ecommerce to social media, visual content is worth more than the amount of words that it conveys: it is an opportunity to build customer engagement, increase trust and safety, enhance personalization, and glean actionable insights based on content engagement. Coactive helps data practitioners derive rapid insights from unstructured data at scale and with minimal supervision. Accessible by user interface or APIs, the platform’s capabilities range from intelligent search to production analytics that use the full power of SQL.

For Flodesk, it has always been about flipping the narrative. The company has strong roots in design—they were an early leader in dreaming big about how beautiful emails can be. The oxymoron formed by “beautiful” and “emails” built the foundation of what would become Flodesk. Read on to learn more about their story.

Meet the recipients for the Compute for Climate Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind global program to fund groundbreaking proof of concepts that think big, innovatively use advanced cloud computing, and enable the world to more quickly address the climate crisis.

To celebrate Black History Month, AWS Startups is excited to spotlight Tiffany Johnson, global business development manager on the AWS Startups underrepresented founders business development team, who has spent her eight years at Amazon challenging customer perceptions and building bigger and better.

We are excited to introduce you to a few Climate Tech startups that are at the forefront of the race to stop the climate crisis. They’re using generative AI to fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enabling the world to transition to a zero-carbon economy. 

Ready to bring your next brilliant idea to life? AWS Activate is here to give your startup a little love with AWS credits, exclusive member-only offers, personalized guidance, and expert advice.