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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…
Unlocking the Full Potential of Generative AI for Enterprise Analytics
Steve Jobs once compared the electric motor to the democratization of new technologies. When the electric motor was first invented, it could only be manufactured on a large-scale in a factory. They had great applications 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…
Salesforce In Talks To Buy Informatica: Report
Informatica, one of the preeminent names in ETL, is considering a deal to be acquired by enterprise cloud software provider Salesforce, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal last week. If completed, the deal w Read more…
News In Brief
The Top Five Data Labeling Firms According to Everest Group
The process of annotating and labeling data is critical for supervised learning tasks, such as training a large language model (LLM) and other types of machine learning models. However, the need for human cognition and i Read more…
Altair Bolsters Analytics Offering with Cambridge Semantics Buy
Altair Engineering will soon fortify its end-to-end data science offering with the acquisition of Cambridge Semantics and its semantic graph database. Terms of the deal, which was announced yesterday, were not disclosed. 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…
Explosion of Observability Data from Cloud Reaches Tipping Point, Dynatrace Says
Companies have reached a tipping point where the volume and complexity of observability data (logs, metrics, traces, and events) created by cloud-native IT systems exceeds the value that companies are able to extract fro Read more…
Data Quality Top Obstacle to GenAI, Informatica Survey Says
A new survey of data leaders by Informatica points to data quality as the number one obstacle to implementing generative AI. The number of data management tools that companies are using, as well as the fact that a large Read more…
This Just In
AUSTIN, Texas and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2024 — Oracle and NVIDIA have announced an expanded collaboration to deliver sovereign AI solutions to customers around the world. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 14, 2024 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run InfluxDB open source natively within the AWS Management Console. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 14, 2024 – StreamNative, the cloud-native messaging and event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, has announced the generally available version of Kafka on StreamNative available on ONE StreamNative Platform. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 14, 2024 — Airbyte, creators of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, today announced a series of accomplishments and awards that again reinforce its standing as the largest and fastest-growing data movement community. Read more…
TORONTO, Ontario, March 14, 2024 – LXT, an emerging leader in global AI training data, today released its third annual executive survey, The Path to AI Maturity. This latest report found that organizations have taken large steps, with nearly three-quarters (72%) reporting that they have reached higher levels of AI maturity. Read more…