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What's new with BlueXP workload factory for GenAI

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Learn what's new with the Generative AI workloads capability of workload factory.

02 February 2025

Support for Amazon Nova foundation models

GenAI now supports the Amazon Nova foundation models. Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro are supported.

File type filtering for data sources

GenAI now supports selecting specific file types to include in the data source scan when you add a data source.

File modification date filtering for data sources

GenAI now supports filtering files to include in the data source scan by modification date when you add a data source. You can choose a modification date range for the included files.

Support for image files and enhanced support for PDF files

GenAI now supports scanning image files and images within PDF files (also known as multi-modal file support). If you choose image files, the text from the images is scanned into the data source and used as data. This capability includes images within PDF documents; if you include PDF file types, images within each PDF are scanned for text, and that text is included in the information from the data source.

Hybrid search and rerank support

GenAI now enhances the relevance of search results by using hybrid search and re-ranking the results. Hybrid search combines keyword searches with vector and semantic searching. The standard keyword search results are augmented with close matches and linguistic nuance, enhancing relevance. GenAI re-ranks the search results and only returns results with the highest relevance.

05 January 2025

Custom snapshot name

You can now provide a snapshot name for an ad-hoc snapshot.

Custom AI engine instance name

You can now give a custom name to the AI engine instance during deployment.

Rebuild corrupted or missing GenAI infrastructure

If your AI engine instance becomes corrupted or is somehow deleted, you can let workload factory rebuild it for you. Workload factory automatically reattaches your knowledge bases to the infrastructure after rebuilding is complete, so that they are ready to use.

01 December 2024

Clone a knowledgebase from a snapshot

BlueXP workload factory for GenAI now supports cloning a knowledge base from a snapshot. This enables quick recovery of knowledge bases and creation of new knowledge bases with existing data sources, and helps with data recovery and development.

On-premises ONTAP cluster discovery and replication

Discover and replicate on-premises ONTAP cluster data to an FSx for ONTAP file system so that it can be used to enrich AI knowledge bases. All on-premises discovery and replication workflows are possible from the new On-Premises ONTAP tab in the Storage inventory.

3 November 2024

Mask Personal Identifiable Information with data guardrails

The Generative AI workload introduces the data guardrails feature, powered by BlueXP classification. The data guardrails feature identifies and masks Personal Identifiable Information (PII) helping you maintain compliance and strengthen security for your sensitive organizational data.

29 September 2024

Snapshot and restore support for knowledge base volumes

You can now protect your Generative AI workloads data by taking a point-in-time copy of a knowledge base. This enables you to protect your data against accidental loss or test changes to the settings of the knowledge base. You can restore the previous version of the knowledge base volume at any time.

Pause scheduled scans

You can now pause scheduled data source scans. By default, Generative AI workloads scans each data source daily to ingest new data into each knowledge base. If you don't want the latest changes to be ingested (during testing or while restoring a snapshot, for example) you can pause the scheduled scans and resume them at any time.

Data protection volumes now supported for knowledge bases

When selecting a knowledge base volume, you can now choose a data protection volume that is part of a NetApp SnapMirror replication relationship. This enables you to store knowledge bases on volumes that are already protected by SnapMirror replication.

1 September 2024

Additional chunking strategies

Generative AI workloads now supports multi-sentence chunking and overlap-based chunking for data sources.

Dedicated volume for each knowledge base

Generative AI workloads now creates a dedicated Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volume for each new knowledge base, enabling individual snapshot policies for each knowledge base and improved protection against failures and data poisoning.

4 August 2024

Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration

Generative AI workloads is now integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, enabling you to monitor Generative AI workloads log files.

Example chatbot application

The NetApp workload factory GenAI sample application enables you to test authentication and retrieval from your published NetApp workload factory knowledge base by interacting directly with it in a web-based chatbot application.

7 July 2024

Initial release of the workload factory for GenAI

The initial release includes the capability to develop a knowledge base that is customized by embedding your organization's data. The knowledge base can be accessed by a chatbot application for your users. This capability ensures accurate and relevant responses to organization-specific questions, enhancing the satisfaction and productivity for all of your users.