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IBM Patents a Faster Method to Train LLMs for Enterprises

Deep learning AI models, such as GenAI chatbots, possess an insatiable appetite for data. These models need data for training purposes so they can be effective for real-world scenarios. It can be challenging, in term Read more…

New AI Patent Study Shows IBM Leads Google and Microsoft in GenAI Race

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence over the last year has sent tech companies scrambling to find new ways to develop and deploy AI technology in their products and processes. Companies that have developed or ar Read more…

IBM Report Suggests Early Adopters Driving Enterprise AI Adoption But Barriers to Adoption Remain

The fourth IBM Global AI Adoption Index was released today. The report was compiled by an annual poll of 8,500+ IT professionals by Morning Consult and highlights the key trends in enterprise AI adoption around the globe Read more…

IBM Report Highlights Consumer Interest in AI-Driven Shopping

The retail industry is facing mounting pressure from the economic headwinds and evolving consumer expectations. To better understand the widening gap between shopper demands and the current retail offering, IBM has condu Read more…

IBM Set to Acquire Data Integration Platforms webMethods and StreamSets for $2.3B

Applications and data integration solutions are going to play an increasingly vital role as organizations accelerate their digital transformations through AI deployment and application modernization.  The Internation Read more…

IBM Announces Availability of Watsonx Granite Models, New Protections for IBM-Developed Models

IBM, one of the leading providers of hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting services, announced the general availability of the first models in the watsonx Granite model series, which is a collection of generative AI models Read more…

IBM’s New Geospatial AI Model on Hugging Face Harnesses NASA Data for Climate Science

IBM recently announced its watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model for Earth observation is now available on Hugging Face, the popular open source machine learning platform and community. The HLS Geospatial Foundation Read more…

IBM Joins the Presto Foundation with Acquisition of Ahana

IBM has acquired Ahana, a startup providing managed and commercial versions of the Presto open source distributed query engine, for an undisclosed amount. “We believe that this is an exciting time for the Presto pro Read more…

IBM Collaboration Looks to Bring Massive AI Models to Any Cloud

Training machine learning foundation models with sometimes billions of parameters demands serious computing power. For example, the largest version of GPT-3, the famous large language model behind OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, ha Read more…

Mezmo’s Observability Pipeline Promises to Stop Runaway Data Flow

The vast amount of machine generated data created by the digital activities of businesses can be overwhelming to those striving to derive its value. With ever larger and more complex applications, greater consumer demand Read more…

IBM Reveals New Diamondback Tape Library Archival Storage

IBM has introduced a new high-density archival storage system, the IBM Diamondback Tape Library. Unveiled at the 2022 Open Compute Project Global Summit, the new storage solution is physically air-gapped, meaning data is Read more…

IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools

IBM Research’s Deep Search product uses natural language processing (NLP) to “ingest and analyze massive amounts of data—structured and unstructured.” Over the years, Deep Search has seen a wide range of scientif Read more…

IBM Acquires Observability Platform Databand.ai

IBM has announced the acquisition of data observability software vendor Databand.ai. Today’s announcement marks IBM’s fifth acquisition of 2022. The company says the acquisition “further strengthens IBM’s softwar Read more…

COVID-19 Symptom Evaluation App, Built with Watson, Becomes Call for Code Regional Finalist

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to spread, doctors and hospitals have been overwhelmed by anxious patients worried about a symptom and unclear on what COVID-19’s symptoms are or which warrant a visit to a medica Read more…

IBM Brings Back a Netezza, Attacks Yellowbrick

Last year, IBM killed off Netezza, the line of popular and powerful analytics appliances. Now Big Blue is ramping up marketing around a new offering that sports the Netezza name, and it’s targeting competitor Yellowbri Read more…

COVID-19 Roundup: Country Rankings, County Trends, How You Can Help & More

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…

COVID-19 Roundup: Apple, Palantir, Rolls-Royce & More

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…

‘Social Contract’ Needed to Establish Trusted Data

With data emerging as the life blood of most industries, the emphasis has shifted from organizing and analyzing big data to finding ways to establish higher levels of trust in the torrent of data generated through custom Read more…

IBM and The Open Group’s Data Scientist Certification Has Its First Recipients

Earlier this year, IBM announced plans for a collaboration with The Open Group to develop a “first-of-a-kind” internal program for accrediting data scientists. The program was presented as IBM’s response to a troub Read more…

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an ‘AI Database’

What's an AI database? If you were to ask IBM executives, they would point you to Db2, the 36-year-old database that's used by tens of thousands of companies around the world to power transactional and analytical workloa Read more…

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