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Crunchy Data Goes All-In With Postgres
The emergence of Postgres as a defacto standard for new development projects has surprised many IT observers. But one group that’s not surprised are the folks at Crunchy Data, a South Carolina company that’s been bui Read more…
Cutting-Edge Infrastructure Best Practices for Enterprise AI Data Pipelines
The ability to harness, process, and leverage vast amounts of data sets leading organizations apart in today's data-driven landscape. To stay ahead, enterprises must master the complexities of artificial intelligence (AI Read more…
Model Fatigue: Why New Doesn’t Always Mean Better
Doesn’t it seem like there’s a new machine learning model introduced every week? That’s probably because there is. From Sora to LLaMA-3 and Claude 2, models today come in all shapes and sizes—open source, off Read more…
Coming to Grips with Prompt Lock-In
Nothing stays still for long in the world of GenAI. The system prompts you’ve written for GPT-4 or Llama-3 8B give you one answer today, but may tell you something different tomorrow. This is the danger of a condition Read more…
GenQL Extends SQL for Probabilistic Modeling
Researchers at MIT have developed a novel programming system called GenQL that extends SQL to deliver probabilistic AI modeling atop tabular data, giving users a new method for bringing predictive analytics and other AI Read more…
News In Brief
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…
ThoughtSpot Touts ‘Data Renaissance’ with GenAI Update
Analytics tool provider ThoughtSpot today rolled out a host of new generative AI capabilities that it claims will set off a “data renaissance” among its users. The key advances that will enable this goal revolve arou Read more…
This Just In
CHICAGO, Ill. –March 12, 2024–Ocient, the leading data analytics software solutions company, today announced that it has closed $49.4 million in funding. This latest raise is an extension of Ocient’s Series B financing, previously led by Greycroft and OCA Ventures, and includes new venture investors Buoyant Ventures, Levy Family Partners, Riverwalk Capital, and Wolf Capital Management, as well as all prior major investors. Read more…
NEW YORK CITY, New York, March 12, 2024 — BigID, the category-leading data security and compliance vendor for the cloud and hybrid cloud, announced a pioneering patent for a technology that dramatically enhances the process of data cleansing, curation, and cataloging for AI – Read more…
DARMSTADT, Germany – March 4, 2024: Software AG, has identified a common challenge caused by the rapid expansion of technology in today’s businesses. A new study reveals that 89% of organizations have rapidly expanded their technology in the past few years and three quarters (76%) say it’s brought with it increased ‘chaos’ that they have to manage. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 12, 2024 –Today, Ikigai Labs, a company that unlocks the power of generative AI for tabular data, announced the formation of a new AI Ethics Council comprised of experts and thought leaders from leading academic institutions across the U.S. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 11, 2024 — Informatica announced that Gartner, Inc. has once again recognized the company as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions report. Read more…