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AI for App Dev: What’s Working, What’s Not

One of the jobs predicted to be impacted the most by AI is application developer. AI models like ChatGPT are expert manipulators of language, after all, so it makes sense that a profession based on languages--computer la Read more…

Zilliz Unveils New Pricing Model, Bolsters Its Cloud Vector Database for LLM Apps

Zilliz is looking to become the preferred vector database choice for LLM-powered applications through strategic enhancements and a cost-effective new pricing model that now includes a free tier. The company just announce Read more…

Cohere Nabs $270M Series C to Empower Businesses with AI

Cohere, the provider of an AI development platform, announced it has raised $270 million in a Series C round. “AI will be the heart that powers the next decade of business success,” said Aidan Gomez, CEO and co-fo Read more…

Weights & Biases Embraces the LLM Boom with Two New AI Development Tools

Weights & Biases unveiled two new products at its inaugural in-person conference in San Francisco. The company is known for its AI and machine learning development tools, and it previously released a new suite of Read more…

Altair Survey Unpacks the Friction Surrounding AI and Data Projects

Altair has released results from an international survey revealing high rates of adoption and implementation of data and AI strategies. The survey also found that projects stall due to three types of friction: organizati Read more…

AI Researchers Issue Warning: Treat AI Risks as Global Priority

Does artificial intelligence represent an existential threat to humanity along the lines of nuclear war and pandemics? A new statement signed by AI scientists and other notable figures says it should be treated as such. 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…

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…

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…

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…

LLMs Are the Dinosaur-Killing Meteor for Old BI, ThoughtSpot CEO Says

When the dust from the bombardment of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) on the market finally clears, there will be fewer BI and analytics vendors left standing, ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair said. “I t Read more…

Galileo Charts Data Quality Course-Correction for AI Teams

For several months, the Silicon Valley startup Galileo has been selling an AI-powered product designed to help correct data quality issues for natural language processing (NLP) models and applications. Today the company Read more…

AI Threat ‘Like Nuclear Weapons,’ Hinton Says

The rise of artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humans and is on par with the use of nuclear weapons, according to more than a third of AI researchers polled in a recent Stanford study as well as Geoff Read more…

Venture Capital Funding Plummets, But AI Investment Growing Strong

Global funding from venture investors plunged 56% last month compared to April 2022, going from $47.8 billion to about $21 billion this year, according to a Crunchbase analysis released today. However, AI was one of the Read more…

Hugging Face and Databricks Streamline Dataset Creation with Spark

Databricks and Hugging Face have unveiled a new integration that will allow users to create a Hugging Face dataset from an Apache Spark dataframe. Databricks has written and committed these Spark changes to the Huggin Read more…

Cognaize Expands IDP Platform with Knowledge Graph to Fuse AI and Human Expertise

Intelligent document processing company Cognaize has announced a significant expansion to its technology platform. These new capabilities extend the accuracy of the company’s Financial Insights Engine through a proprie Read more…

Sam Altman Debunks GPT-5 Rumors, Shifts Focus to Improving Existing Models

Those anticipating an eventual GPT-5 release may have a long time to wait. The current trend of developing ever-larger AI models like GPT-4 may soon come to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I think we’ Read more…

What’s Moving the Analytics and BI Tool Business Now

While the addition of AI-powered insights to analytics and business intelligence (ABI) tools is certainly still occurring, a bigger trend currently is the addition of low-code and no-code automation capabilities to ABI t Read more…

A New Era of Natural Language Search Emerges for the Enterprise

Large language models and their applications are suddenly a hot topic due to the popular release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the subsequent search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. ChatGPT and similar systems are r Read more…

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