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Has GPT-4 Ignited the Fuse of Artificial General Intelligence?

Following the release of GPT-4, Microsoft AI researchers have published a paper suggesting that the OpenAI language model demonstrates “sparks” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). GPT-4 is OpenAI’s latest Read more…

Partners Line Up for Google Cloud Ready for AlloyDB Designation

Google Cloud’s Data Cloud & AI Summit took place today, and the company announced new enhancements and partnerships surrounding its Postgres-compatible database, AlloyDB. AlloyDB is a fully managed PostgreSQL-co Read more…

Open Letter Urges Pause on AI Research

The Future of Life Institute has issued an open letter calling for a six-month pause on some forms of AI research. Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” the group is asking AI labs to pause research on AI 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…

DBHawk Partners with Microsoft Azure, Lands Patent for Sensitive Data

DBHawk developer Datasparc has entered into a new partnership with Microsoft that will increase its customers’ ability to work with data in the Azure cloud. The San Diego-based company has also secured a new patent for Read more…

Mozilla.ai Launches with $30M to Build Trustworthy AI

Mozilla has announced it is launching an AI startup, Mozilla.ai. The new startup will be aimed at building a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem and is backed by an initial $30 million seed investment fr Read more…

Databricks Bucks the Herd with Dolly, a Slim New LLM You Can Train Yourself

Databrick is getting into the large language model (LLM) game with Dolly, a slim new language model that customers can train themselves on their own data residing in Databricks’ lakehouse. Despite the sheepish name, Do Read more…

New Enterprise Search Report Shows How Data and AI Can Increase Relevant Results

Delivering relevant search results can be a major challenge for enterprises. Relevant search results, or how closely a platform’s generated search results relate to user intent, are crucial for a successful user experi Read more…

Apache Flink 1.17 Update Drives Streaming Data Warehouses

The folks at the Apache Flink project have announced a 1.17.0 release of the popular open source distributed framework for streaming data use cases. “Apache Flink is the leading stream processing standard, and the c Read more…

Milvus 2.3 Launches with Support for Nvidia GPUs

Zilliz has beta launched Milvus 2.3, the latest version of its open source vector database. Milvus 2.3 supports Nvidia GPUs which Zilliz says affords greater flexibility and improved real-time workload performance. Zilli Read more…

Kobai Rides Atop the Lakehouse with Semantic Graph Engine

Kobai this week announced the launch of Saturn, a new offering designed to bring the power of the knowledge graph to data already stored in lakehouses. By creating a semantic layer that sits atop Snowflake and Databricks Read more…

Bill Gates Says the Age of AI Has Begun, Bringing Opportunity and Responsibility

The latter half of March has been a whirlwind moment for artificial intelligence. OpenAI released GPT-4 last week, and this week, Nvidia announced a new cloud services platform for generative AI while Google initiated th Read more…

ChatGPT Puts AI At Inflection Point, Nvidia CEO Huang Says

It’s been 11 years since three AI researchers shocked the world with a breakthrough in computer vision, kickstarting the deep learning craze. But with emergence of generative language models like ChatGPT over the past Read more…

Google Officially Releases Bard, Its ChatGPT Competitor

Google today announced that it’s officially releasing Bard, the new generative language model that it unveiled several weeks ago. While it’s still a research product, Google is eager to get Bard into the hands of tes Read more…

Nvidia Unveils GPUs for Generative Inference Workloads like ChatGPT

Today at its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia took the wraps off three new GPUs designed to accelerate inference workloads for generative AI applications, including generating text, images, and videos. It also launched Read more…

Attack Surface Grows As Data Moves to the Cloud, Report Finds

Companies may be unwittingly increasing the odds that their data is compromised by storing vast amounts of it in cloud repositories that are poorly governed and don’t adhere to modern data deletion standards, according Read more…

How Enterprises Can Defray the Hidden Cost of the Cloud

When the cloud became popular earlier this decade, conventional wisdom had it that the transition to an off-prem model would help enterprises become more agile, more competitive and reduce the cost of managing all their Read more…

Media Roundup: GPT-4’s Big Debut

Just two years ago, nobody outside of a small group of AI researchers and practitioners knew what a “large language model” was. But thanks to the launch of ChatGPT in November, everybody and her cat is an LLM expert Read more…

DataRobot Unleashes 9.0 Update and Partner Integrations to Drive AI ROI

DataRobot is capitalizing on the surging popularity of AI with new partner integrations and a significant platform update: DataRobot AI Platform 9.0. DataRobot’s AI platform is designed to cater to both data scienti Read more…

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