Bringing Data and ML to Value-Based Pricing

Companies across many industries historically have used a cost-based approach to setting prices for goods and services. But many are starting to explore an entirely different approach called value-based pricing. When com Read more…

US Dept. of Commerce Asks for Help to Make Data GenAI-Ready

Data is at the heart of AI. Without good data, the odds of developing useful AI models are somewhere between slim and none. With that in mind, the Department of Commerce last week issued a public request for advice on ho Read more…

Snowflake Touts Speed, Efficiency of New ‘Arctic’ LLM

Snowflake today took the wraps off Arctic, a new large language model (LLM) that is available under an Apache 2.0 license. The company says Arctic’s unique mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, combined with its relat Read more…

The Best Strategy for AI Deployment

With AI failure historically reported to be around 85%, there is every reason to step back and consider that most approaches and most vendors supplying AI solutions aren’t working. This same kind of failure rate has be Read more…

EDB Puts Postgres in the Middle of Analytics Workflow with New Lakehouse Stack

EnterpriseDB next month is expected to formally launch a new lakehouse that puts Postgres at the center of analytics workflows, with an eye toward future AI workflows. Currently codenamed Project Beacon, EDB’s new data Read more…

Bridging Intent with Action: The Ethical Journey of AI Democratization

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undergoing a profound transformation, presenting immense opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Generative AI has replaced traditional ML and AI as the hot topic in boardrooms. However Read more…

Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data

“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…

Unlocking the Full Potential of Generative AI for Enterprise Analytics

Steve Jobs once compared the electric motor to the democratization of new technologies. When the electric motor was first invented, it could only be manufactured on a large-scale in a factory. They had great applications Read more…

Vectara Spies RAG As Solution to LLM Fibs and Shannon Theorem Limitations

Large language models (LLMs) hallucinate. There’s just no way around that, thanks to how they're designed and fundamental limitations on data compression as expressed in the Shannon Information Theorem, says Vectara CE Read more…

Salesforce In Talks To Buy Informatica: Report

Informatica, one of the preeminent names in ETL, is considering a deal to be acquired by enterprise cloud software provider Salesforce, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal last week. If completed, the deal w Read more…