Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami

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…

Salesforce-Informatica Deal Appears to Have Fallen Through

Talks between Salesforce and Informatica appear to have ended, and no acquisition is expected at this time, according to published reports. A union between Salesforce, the $34-billion enterprise cloud giant, and data 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 Top Five Data Labeling Firms According to Everest Group

The process of annotating and labeling data is critical for supervised learning tasks, such as training a large language model (LLM) and other types of machine learning models. However, the need for human cognition and i 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…

Altair Bolsters Analytics Offering with Cambridge Semantics Buy

Altair Engineering will soon fortify its end-to-end data science offering with the acquisition of Cambridge Semantics and its semantic graph database. Terms of the deal, which was announced yesterday, were not disclosed. 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…