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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…

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…

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…

Collibra Launches AI Governance at Data Citizens Conference

The Collibra community descended upon Orlando, Florida, this week for the company’s annual Data Citizens conference. In addition to educational sessions and keynotes on the importance of data intelligence, attendees go Read more…

Data Quality Getting Worse, Report Says

For as long as “big data” has been a thing, data quality has been a big question mark. Working with data to make it suitable for analysis was the task that data professionals spent the bulk of their time doing 15 yea Read more…

News In Brief

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…

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

MicroStrategy Fleshes Out AI-for-BI Strategy, Bets Big On Bitcoin

MicroStrategy this week unveiled a new customizable AI bot called Auto that lets business users interact with MicroStrategy’s data analytics offerings through natural language. But investors in the publicly traded Virg Read more…

Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…

DDN Cranks the Data Throughput with AI400X2 Turbo

DDN today launched a new version of its high-end storage solution for AI and high-performance computing, which Nvidia uses to power its massive Eos supercomputer. The AI400X2 Turbo features a 30% performance boost compar Read more…

This Just In

Lenovo Advances Hybrid AI Innovation to Meet the Demands of the Most Compute Intensive Workloads

Apr 24, 2024 |

April 24, 2024 – Lenovo today announced a comprehensive new suite of purpose-built AI-centric infrastructure systems and solutions to advance Hybrid AI innovation from edge to cloud. Read more…

Hakkōda 2024 Financial Services & Insurance State of Data Report: 97% Say Generative AI Matters for Success

Apr 16, 2024 |

NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 — Hakkoda, a cloud data engineering consultancy specializing in Snowflake, today released its 2024 Financial Services & Insurance State of Data Report, surveying 145 director to CEO level data leaders from large financial services and insurance (FSI) organizations. Read more…

Gretel Releases World’s Largest Open Source Text-to-SQL Dataset to Accelerate AI Model Training

Apr 5, 2024 |

SAN FRANCISCO, April 5, 2024 — Gretel, a leader in synthetic data, released the world’s largest open source Text-to-SQL dataset to unlock new possibilities for AI in the enterprise. Read more…

Lumana Emerges from Stealth, Unveils Its Hybrid Cloud and AI-Based Video Security System

Apr 3, 2024 |

LOS GATOS, Calif., April 3, 2024 — Lumana emerged from stealth with a next-generation video security platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed hybrid cloud architecture, enabling organizations to unlock the full potential of their visual data. Read more…

DataVisor Introduces Enhanced Anti-Money Laundering Solution to Support Financial Institutions

Mar 27, 2024 |

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 27, 2024 — DataVisor has announced the launch of its latest offering: a modern end-to-end anti-money laundering (AML) solution boasting cutting-edge technology and comprehensive functionalities powered by sophisticated machine learning and AI. Read more…

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