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Correcting an AI Overreaction On DeepSeek, and Emphasizing the Importance of Quality
A few weeks back, DeepSeek, China’s new high profile generative AI platform, hit the news with a substantial alleged reduction in training and hardware cost. This had a major adverse impact on NVIDIA’s valuation and Read more…
Your Next Big Job in Tech: AI Engineer
The AI revolution is shaking up the tech world in ways both big and small. In addition to rewiring the data stack, AI is also changing the jobs that people do, and one of the biggest changes is the emergence of the AI en Read more…
Alation Aims to Automate Data Management Drudgery with AI
Companies that struggle to effectively use modern data management tools such as data catalogs may be interested in new software unveiled by Alation today. The company unveiled an Agentic Platform that uses AI agents to a Read more…
As AI Storage Balloons, MinIO Eyes Faster Growth
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News In Brief
The Rise of Intelligent Machines: Nvidia Accelerates Physical AI Progress
The boundaries between artificial intelligence and the physical world are dissolving. AI systems are becoming increasingly adept at perceiving, interacting, analyzing, and responding to their physical environments. Read more…
Immuta Brings AI to Data Governance, Launches Copilot
Data governance software provider Immuta today launched a new AI product designed to transform how data access and data governance is done. The company also launched the first product under the new Immuta AI brand, Immut Read more…
IBM to Buy DataStax for Database, GenAI Capabilities
IBM today announced its intent to acquire DataStax, the longtime backer of the Apache Cassandra database that has recently broadened its reach into streaming data and generative AI. IBM cited DataStax’s capability to m Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 14, 2025 — Patronus AI today announced the launch of the industry’s first Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge (MLLM-as-a-Judge), a groundbreaking evaluation capability that enables developers to score and optimize multimodal AI systems for image-to-text applications. Read more…
NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO– Accenture has made a strategic investment in OPAQUE, a provider of a confidential AI platform that empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general purpose AI workloads using encrypted data and governed data sharing, with a focus on privacy, sovereignty and compliance. Read more…
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6, 2025 — SoftServe, a premier IT consulting and digital services provider, today released survey results on the state of data management in 2025, unveiling significant benefits of strong data foundations while exposing the widespread deficits in data maturity affecting most businesses. Read more…
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2025 — Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, today announced the successful close of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2025 — TrueFoundry, an AI deployment and scaling platform, today announced it raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Intel Capital. Existing investors Eniac Ventures and Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India & Read more…