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title: How Northwestern University built a multilingual generative AI search tool with AWS | Amazon Web Services
description: Search experiences break down quickly when content grows more complex and multilingual. This customer story blog post shows how Northwestern University Libraries rebuilt search using generative AI on AWS to better connect users with rich text, audio, and visual content. Read the story to see why the team chose AWS for flexibility, cost transparency, and fast iteration, then reach out to NCS Technologies, Inc. to talk about applying similar approaches to your AI search or discovery projects.
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Search experiences break down quickly when content grows more complex and multilingual. This customer story blog post shows how Northwestern University Libraries rebuilt search using generative AI on AWS to better connect users with rich text, audio, and visual content. Read the story to see why the team chose AWS for flexibility, cost transparency, and fast iteration, then reach out to NCS Technologies, Inc. to talk about applying similar approaches to your AI search or discovery projects.

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