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Rethinking ‘Open’ for AI

What does “open” mean in the context of AI? Must we accept hidden layers? Do copyrights and patents still hold sway? And do consumers have the right to opt out of data collection? These are the types of questions tha 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…

Meet 2023 Datanami Person to Watch David Nalley

Two megatrends in big data today involve open source software and the cloud. One person at the intersection of these two trends is David Nalley, who’s the head of open source strategy and marketing at AWS and president 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…

Confluent’s New Cloud Capabilities Address Data Streaming Hurdles

Confluent has announced several new Confluent Cloud capabilities and features that address the data governance, security, and optimization needs of data streaming in the cloud. “Real-time data is the lifeblood of ev Read more…

HPE Brings Analytics Together on its Data Fabric

HPE today unveiled a major update to its Ezmeral software platform, which previously included over a dozen components but now includes just two, including the Ezmeral Data Fabric that provides edge-to-cloud data manageme Read more…

Airbyte Launches Premium Support for Its Open Source Data Integration Platform

Data integration platform Airbyte has announced the launch of its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Airbyte Open Source is a deeply customizable version of the company’s data integration platfo 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…

Meet Maxime Beauchemin, a 2023 Person to Watch

When it comes to prolific contributors to open source projects in the big data space, Maxime Beauchemin is definitely somebody you should know. As a data engineer at Airbnb, Beauchemin created multiple tools that he subs Read more…

Why Truly Open Communities are Vital to Open Source Technology

Every company in the world that uses software uses open source software. It just happens, because open source is packaged in so many places and arrives without anyone deciding anything. The forms filed by publicly tra Read more…

Observability Platform Acceldata Goes Open Source

Data observability firm Acceldata has announced a new open source version of its data platform for enterprise users. The company says this open source offering delivers stable and community-validated versions of data obs Read more…

Speedb’s Data Storage Engine Goes Open Source

Speedb has announced it is going open source with its enterprise data storage engine billed as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB. The company says making this technology available through open source brings an opportu Read more…

Google Announces Open Source ML Compiler Project, OpenXLA

At its Next ‘22 event, Google Cloud announced the launch of an open source machine learning compiler ecosystem, OpenXLA. OpenXLA is a community-led and open source ecosystem of ML compiler and infrastructure project Read more…

Five Things to Know About Web Data Extraction Now

Data is key to competitive advantage. If you’re a regular reader of this publication, you won’t dispute that. The question then becomes: Where do you get your data? While the option to simply buy external data from d Read more…

Security Concerns Causing Pullback in Open Source Data Science, Anaconda Warns

More than 40% of organizations surveyed by Anaconda say they’re pulling back on their use of open source data science tools due to security concerns, with potential vulnerabilities such as Log4j the number one driver, Read more…

Vector Database Company Zilliz Raises $60M to Enhance Cloud Offering

Vector database company Zilliz announced a $60 million extension of its initial $43 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $113 million. Originally based in China, the company has established a new headqua Read more…

A Dozen Questions for Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia is a very busy man. When he’s not helping to shape the future of Databricks as its CTO, he is helping to shape the future of computer science as an assistant professor at Stanford University.  He also fi Read more…

Databricks Opens Up Its Delta Lakehouse at Data + AI Summit

Databricks, which had faced criticism of running a closed lakehouse, is open sourcing most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. That was one of a number of announcem Read more…

Anaconda’s Commercial Fee Is Paying Off, CEO Says

Anaconda created a stir over a year ago when it began charging large commercial users a fee for access to its popular collection of Python tools. The change, it said, was necessary to offset the costs of maintaining a la Read more…

Voltron Data Releases Enterprise Subscription for Arrow

Voltron Data has announced its first commercial offering, the Voltron Enterprise Subscription for Arrow. With support for new and existing Apache Arrow users, the subscription offers exclusive access to features for enha Read more…

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