As far as holidays go, World Backup Day does not generate the excitement of Christmas or Halloween. There is no mascot, such as a “Backup Bunny” (sorry, Easter), nor any imbibing of adult beverages, as on St. Patrick Read more…
Accenture’s latest Technology Vision 2023 report contains insights into how key technologies are converging to merge the digital and physical worlds. Though the digital world has grown by leaps and bounds, it has yet t Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Vector databases arrived on the scene a few years ago to help power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Companies like Home Depot dramatically improved the search exper Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
