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Breaking boundaries: How Snowflake’s container services are transforming data workflows

Chad Wilson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:00:54 +0000

Snowflake Summit 2023 brought together industry leaders and experts to unveil the latest innovations in data processing and management. Among the groundbreaking announcements, container services emerged as a game-changer, promising to address the limitations faced by data scientists and revolutionize the way they work. With its focus on providing a unified data platform for all […]

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Slang.ai raises $20M to bring the power of voice AI to retailers and restaurants

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:45:19 +0000

Slang.ai, a company that provides a voice-enabled phone answering service powered by generative artificial intelligence, emerged from stealth mode today with $20 million in funding to deliver a better experience for customers calling retail establishments and restaurants. With Slang’s solution, brick-and-mortar businesses don’t need to worry about missed phone calls going to voicemail anymore. They are […]

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AI rivalry heats up as Baidu and DeepMind aim for OpenAI’s top spot

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:00:04 +0000

The power of generative artificial intelligence chatbots to talk like humans and perform knowledge tasks has taken the world by storm, but none has gotten as much attention as OpenAI’s LP’s ChatGPT. Now, that popularity has brought both new contenders for OpenAI’s crown and new claims of superiority. At the front of the pack, Google […]

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SodaGPT uses generative AI to ‘shift left’ on data quality testing

Tim Keary — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:00:27 +0000

Data quality testing platform Soda Data NV today announced the launch of SodaGPT, a data management platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users define data quality expectations. SodaGPT uses generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities and SodaCL’s domain-specific language capabilities to translate natural language queries into data quality tests. “SodaGPT is the first generative […]

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Airtable launches beta program for no-code AI-powered app deployment

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:00:26 +0000

Airtable, a no-code platform for building workflows and apps, today announced that it’s launching a beta program and expanding access to Airtable AI, allowing enterprises to develop and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications for business workflows and productivity. Using Airtable AI, companies will be able to integrate generative AI across their organizations and workflows without […]

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CalypsoAI raises $23M to stop employees sharing sensitive data with generative AI chatbots

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:30:53 +0000

Calypso AI Corp. said today it has raised $23 million in an early-stage financing as it looks to carve out a niche for itself providing security for companies using generative artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT. Today’s Series A-1 round was led by Paladin Capital Group and included participation from existing investor Lockheed Martin Ventures, […]

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NoTraffic closes on $50M funding round to accelerate smart traffic management

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:00:26 +0000

Traffic management software startup NoTraffic Ltd. said today it has closed on a $50 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $75.7 million. The Series B round was led by M&G Investments and joined by new investors VNV Global and UMC Capital, plus existing investors Grove Ventures, Vektor Partners, Next […]

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Faros AI raises $20M to make software engineering teams smarter

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:00:17 +0000

Software engineering-focused artificial intelligence startup Faros AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $20 million early-stage funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $36 million. The Series A investment was led by David Hornik of Lobby Capital and saw participation from existing investors SignalFire, Salesforce Ventures and Operator Collective. Faros AI is […]

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Space and Time uses generative AI to enable data analytics in natural language

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 04:01:06 +0000

The decentralized data warehouse startup Space and Time Labs Inc. said today it has integrated with OpenAI LP’s chatbot technology to enable developers, analysts and data engineers to query their information and create dashboards using natural language prompts. Space and Time is the creator of a decentralized and hybrid data warehouse that enables transactional queries […]

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Snowflake and Nvidia partner to let businesses use their own data to build custom AIs

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:15 +0000

Snowflake Inc. and Nvidia Corp. announced a team-up today during Snowflake Summit 2023 that will provide customers a way to build custom generative artificial intelligence applications more easily using their own data within a secure cloud environment. Many enterprises see generative AI as a type of assistant, using it to augment employee knowledge by having […]

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Snowflake and Microsoft expand partnership with focus on AI

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:33:45 +0000

Snowflake Inc. is expanding its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to simplify joint customers’ artificial intelligence projects. The expanded partnership was announced at Snowflake Summit 2023, which kicked off today in Las Vegas. A core focus of the collaboration is Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. It provides cloud-based versions of OpenAI LP’s machine learning models, including GPT-4. […]

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Vector Search brings the richness of GenAI to all developer personas

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:56:44 +0000

The primary purpose of artificial intelligence is to help people become more creative, productive and ingenious. Targeted at citizen and enterprise developers equally, Vector Search for MongoDB Atlas allows advanced data querying capabilities and comparisons through AI-powered algorithms. “Do you focus on the buttoned-up enterprise developer in the bank, or do you focus on that hoodie-wearing developer in […]

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Databricks acquires generative AI startup MosaicML in $1.3B deal

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:50:12 +0000

Big-data and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. said today that it will acquire the generative artificial intelligence startup MosaicML Inc. in a deal worth $1.3 billion, with a goal to make open-source AI models more accessible to enterprise businesses. The acquisition comes at a time when generative AI is capturing the attention of every […]

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HPE wants to turn supercomputing leadership into generative AI profits

Dave Vellante with Rob Strechay and Andy Thurai — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 03:07:09 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s recent announcement of an artificial intelligence cloud for large language models highlights a differentiated strategy that the company hopes will lead to sustained momentum in its high-performance computing business. Although we think HPE has some distinct advantages with respect to its supercomputing intellectual property, the public cloud players have a substantial […]

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From hype to reality: Analysts shed light on AI challenges and opportunities at MongoDB.local NYC

Cheryl Knight — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:26:19 +0000

The transformative power of artificial intelligence and the critical role played by open source in driving innovation headlined this week’s MongoDB.Local NYC event. At the conclusion of the event, theCUBE’s analyst panel provided insights into the challenges faced by organizations, the evolving developer ecosystem and the pivotal need for strategic decision-making in this rapidly evolving […]

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Botco.ai launches GenAI Chat Cloud with enterprise-grade privacy and security

Mike Wheatley — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:00:54 +0000

Startup Botco.ai Inc. is making its debut in the increasingly crowded generative artificial intelligence market today with the launch of its GenAI Chat Cloud platform. It’s designed to enable enterprises to put generative AI to use in various aspects of their business, from customer service to marketing and beyond. The Botco.ai GenAI Chat Cloud is a […]

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Unleashing the power of AI: HPE launches GreenLake for Large Language Models

Chad Wilson — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:37:33 +0000

The convergence of supercomputing and cloud technology has opened up exciting possibilities in the world of artificial intelligence. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has taken a leap forward by entering the AI cloud market with its GreenLake for Large Language Models service. This move signifies HPE’s commitment to providing advanced infrastructure that can handle the ever-growing […]

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Amazon invests $100M in new Generative AI Innovation Center to accelerate solution development

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:30:06 +0000

As enterprise businesses and startups continue to embrace generative artificial intelligence, Amazon Web Services Inc. furthered its investment in the technology today with the announcement of its Generative AI Innovation Center, a new program aimed at helping customers build and deploy AI solutions. The company said it’s investing $100 million in the program, which will […]

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Unqork aims for a unified data definition with the help of generative AI

Ryan Stevens — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:07:58 +0000

The hype of ChatGPT has shown the world the magic of artificial intelligence — but AI has long been in the mix at companies such as Amazon Web Services Inc. AI is generating opportunities to step-function areas, one of them being the migration of mainframes or Common Business Oriented Language that still power a lot […]

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Mendix introduces chatbots and embedded AI models with latest platform release

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:24:24 +0000

Mendix today previewed a new version of its low-code development platform that will make it easier for companies to build artificial intelligence applications. The new version, called Mendix 10, also adds two AI chatbots designed to ease developers’ work. The company plans to share more details about the update at an event next Tuesday. Mendix’s […]

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Integral releases open-source AI tool for evaluating code reliability

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:00:14 +0000

Integral, a venture-backed data management startup, today debuted an open-source tool that can analyze software teams’ code and automatically highlight areas for improvement. The tool is known as Robin AI. It uses artificial intelligence to scan code files for potential issues. Integral, officially Promeed Inc., launched in 2022 and earlier this year raised a funding […]

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MosaicML releases open-source 30B parameter AI model for enterprise applications

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:00:18 +0000

MosaicML Inc., a generative artificial intelligence startup that provides infrastructure for companies to run machine learning services, announced the open-source availability of MPT-30B, the company’s most advanced MosaicML Pretrained Model foundation series for commercially licensed AI applications. The company said that the MPT-30B model surpasses the quality of the original GPT-3 released by OpenAI LP […]

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Accenture to collaborate with AWS, Microsoft and Google on generative AI technologies

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 01:26:12 +0000

Global technology consulting giant Accenture Plc said in a series of announcements today that it’s expanding its strategic partnerships with the three biggest cloud computing providers to help enterprise customers take advantage of the latest developments in artificial intelligence. The expanded partnerships build on Accenture’s plan to invest $3 billion into its Data & AI […]

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Driving AI innovation: Intel’s Lisa Spelman discusses the future of computing

Chad Wilson — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:09:09 +0000

The transformative power of artificial intelligence and its impact on various industries have been at the forefront of technological advancements. Lisa Spelman (pictured), corporate vice president and general manager of Xeon products at Intel Corp., recently shared valuable insights on Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processor and its role in accelerating AI adoption while catering to diverse […]

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HPE’s bold moves in GenAI: Inside the hybrid multicloud strategy

Cheryl Knight — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:41:21 +0000

In a world increasingly captivated by the potential of generative artificial intelligence, the direction tech giants are charting for the future is becoming more clear, more focused and undoubtedly more competitive. During this week’s HPE Discover event, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. unveiled its strategic maneuvers in this space. And several intriguing aspects of HPE’s GenAI […]

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son suggests company plans to gear up AI investments

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:31:56 +0000

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has indicated that the company, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications providers, plans to ramp up its investments in artificial intelligence. Son, who founded SoftBank in 1981, detailed the company’s plans during its annual shareholder meeting today. He reportedly told investors that “we would like to be [in] the […]

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Intel pairs its hardware with HPE solutions to drive enterprise AI success

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:19:30 +0000

While artificial intelligence is one of the hottest enterprise technology topics today, most companies are still figuring out how to harness AI as a competitive differentiator and driver for crucial business goals. Intel Corp. has collaborated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. to deliver AI-focused offerings that combine powerful compute and intelligent software. “Intel and HPE, […]

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Google introduces AI-powered money laundering detection service

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:49:35 +0000

Google LLC’s cloud unit today debuted a new service that uses artificial intelligence to help financial institutions detect money laundering. The service is known as Anti Money Laundering AI, or AML AI for short. Banks historically used so-called rules-based detection systems to spot illicit financial activity. In such systems, users manually define what type of […]

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Dropbox rolls out new AI features for search and summarization

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:15:54 +0000

Cloud-based file-sharing company Dropbox Inc. announced new artificial intelligence-based features today that will make it easier for customers to discover all their files and information in one place, summarize information embedded in them and get questions answered. Dropbox is best known for its file-sharing service that stores files in the cloud and allows users to […]

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Fero Labs, which uses AI to reduce carbon emissions in manufacturing, raises $15M

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:30:11 +0000

Artificial intelligence-powered manufacturing process optimization startup Fero Labs Inc. today closed on a $15 million growth funding round. Climate Investment led the round, with participation from Blackhorn Ventures, Innovation Endeavors and DI Technology, bringing Fero Labs’ total amount raised to $30 million. Fero Labs is the creator of a “white-box” AI platform that helps engineers […]

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