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Anyscale Takes On LLM Challenges with Aviary

Anyscale has announced a new open source project called Aviary focused on developing applications with open source large language models. With all the new open source LLMs to choose from, it may be difficult to decide Read more…

Numbers Station Sees Big Potential In Using Foundation Models for Data Wrangling

A startup called Numbers Station is applying the generative power of pre-trained foundation models such as GPT-4 to help with data wrangling. The company, which is based on research conducted at the Stanford AI Lab, has Read more…

Exasol Reimagines In-Memory Analytics with Major Database Update

Exasol has announced updates and enhancements to its in-memory analytics database. The company says the new release underscores its commitment to delivering a solution for its customers that does not require trade-offs b Read more…

A DECADE OF DATANAMI: 2011-2021

Check out our special Decade of Datanami series, which chronicled the major advances in the fields of big data from 2011 to 2021. From the rise of Apache Spark to the rapid expansion of the cloud, Datanami has been there Read more…

Saving Sea Turtles with SAS’s ConserVision App

In case you missed it, Tuesday was World Turtle Day, as designated by the non-profit organization American Tortoise Rescue. Even if turtle conservation wasn’t on your to-do list this week, the folks at SAS have a way f Read more…

Meet Barr Moses, a 2023 Datanami Person to Watch

We take data observability for granted as a product category today, but that wasn’t always the case. We can thank Monte Carlo, and its CEO and co-founder Barr Moses, for doing much of the work to make data observabilit Read more…

Snowflake Bolsters Data Cloud Search Capabilities with Neeva Acquisition

Snowflake has announced it will acquire search specialist Neeva for an undisclosed amount. “Search is fundamental to how businesses interact with data,” said Snowflake Co-founder Benoit Dageville in a blog post. � Read more…

GDPR Celebrates Fifth Birthday, Meta Fined $1.3 Billion

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the European Union implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the most far-reaching data privacy protection law at the time. Data suggests that, Read more…

Data Management Implications for Generative AI

The year 2023 will be the year that we’ll remember as the mainstream beginning of the AI age, catapulted by the technology that everyone’s talking about: ChatGPT. Generative AI language models like ChatGPT have ca Read more…

Microsoft Unifies Data Management, Analytics, and ML Into ‘Fabric’

Microsoft yesterday unveiled Microsoft Fabric, a new offering that unites its suite of data management, analytic, and machine learning tools into a single offering. The solution is built on OneLake, a new data lake that� Read more…

Alteryx Adds Generative AI to Analytics Suite

Generative AI products like ChatGPT have caught the eye of leaders at Alteryx, as they have for most analytics software companies. Today at its annual user conference, Alteryx gave us a glimpse of its first generative AI Read more…

Should Employees Own the Generative AI Tools that Enhance or Replace Them?

Employee-facing generative AI Tools are falling into two camps. There is the enhancement path as showcased by Microsoft Copilot effort where the AI tool significantly automates employee tasks, and the emerging field of c Read more…

UC Berkeley Envisions a Data-driven Future with New College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

The University of California at Berkeley has announced it will establish a new college on its campus for the first time in over 50 years. UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society will meet the univ Read more…

Where Tableau Draws the Line on AI Adoption

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are all the rage at the moment, and software vendors of all stripes are rushing to adopt them. Tableau, the global analytics leader, is also moving to adopt LLMs, but the ways in Read more…

Reggie Townsend Unpacks the SAS Approach to Responsible AI

Since the mainstream release of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and its promises and pitfalls are on the minds of more people than ever before. Instead of retreating from the risks and uncertainties that AI brings, SAS Read more…

FerretDB Provides Alternative to MongoDB

Developers that like the simplicity and ease-of-use of MongoDB but not the restrictive license may be interested in FerretDB, an open source NoSQL database that offers MongoDB compatibility by translating the database’ Read more…

Tigris Data Unveils Beta Launch of New Vector Search Tool

Tigris Data has beta launched a new vector search tool for building personalized recommendations and search applications. Available now as a free beta, Vector Search is meant for use cases like retail and e-commerce, as Read more…

Beyond the Moat: Powerful Open-Source AI Models Just There for the Taking

ChatGPT and GPT-4 models get all the headlines these days. But if you look around, you’ll find capable open source models you can run yourself, for free, with no restrictions, with excellent performance. A Google resea Read more…

Altman’s Suggestion for AI Licenses Draws Mixed Response

The US should consider creating a new regulatory body to oversee the licensing and use of AI “above a certain threshold,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in Congressional testimony yesterday. His recommendation was met wi Read more…

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