Amazon Adds Powerful Palmyra AI Models to Bedrock
Just a few weeks after unveiling upgrades to its own AI stack—including Nova Reel 1.1 for long-form video generation and Nova Sonic for real-time conversations—Amazon is expanding its Bedrock platform again. This time, it's adding heavyweight foundation models from enterprise AI company Writer, including the new Palmyra X5 and X4.
For context, Amazon Bedrock is a managed service that gives developers access to multiple top-tier generative AI models through a single API. It’s meant to make building AI-powered apps easier without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.
So, what’s special about Palmyra?
The big headline is context window size—and it’s no small thing. The Palmyra X5 model supports an eye-popping 1 million tokens in a single context window. For comparison, that’s enough room to fit several entire books’ worth of text in one go. The X4 model is more modest (but still huge) at 128,000 tokens.
Why does this matter? It means these models can work with extremely large documents or datasets all at once—making them ideal for industries that need to analyze long or complex inputs.
Also read: Kardi AI Raises €1.1M to Expand Smart Heart Monitoring
Built for Business
Both models are tuned specifically for enterprise use cases, and come with critical security credentials—SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA compliance—making them viable for sensitive applications across finance, healthcare, retail, and more.
Here’s how different sectors might use them:
- Finance: Digest entire regulatory filings (like 10-Qs and 10-Ks), support deal transactions, or run deep market research.
- Healthcare: Automate member onboarding, handle appeals, or manage case workflows.
- Retail: Generate rich product descriptions or analyze campaign performance.
- Tech: Assist with personalized outreach, knowledge base support, or even research accounts at scale.
More Than Just Text In/Text Out
These models also support advanced enterprise features, including adaptive reasoning (so they think through problems with better context) and multistep tool calling—where the AI can take actions like updating a CRM, sending an email, or executing a workflow using external systems.
Getting Started
Right now, the models are available through Amazon Bedrock in the US West (Oregon) region, with support for cross-region inference. They’re multilingual too, supporting English, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese.
To use them, developers need to request access via the Bedrock console. Once approved, the models can be accessed through the AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, or Bedrock Converse API.
