Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of December 20; Updates from Anthropic, Cognizant, NVIDIA & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of December 20, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.
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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of December 20, 2024
Altair Brings Advanced AI Agent Framework to RapidMiner
This new capability brings together the most advanced features of leading AI agent frameworks and enhances them with Altair RapidMiner’s signature strengths. By combining graph-based intelligence, dynamic agent collaboration, and integrations with physical simulations, traditional machine learning models, and business rules, Altair RapidMiner enables users to create comprehensive, computationally optimized automation systems.
Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is Now Available
Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management simplifies the creation, evaluation, versioning, and sharing of prompts to help developers and prompt engineers get better responses from foundation models (FMs) for their use cases.
Answer.AI Unveils New ModernBERT NLP Model
BERT is an AI model that offered a novel mechanism at the time of its announcement, which allows predictions based on not only the context before but also the context after the word when predicting words in a sentence. This feature, along with its ability to learn from raw unlabeled data and its ability to perform ‘transfer learning,’ which allows trained models to be used for other tasks, have been highly evaluated and applied to many research studies, and it is said that this model has dramatically improved AI technology. As of 2024, it is said to be the second most downloaded model on HuggingFace.
Ataccama Extends GenAI Capabilities
Applying data quality curation is the final step on the journey to data trust. At this point, users fix all the data quality issues with Ataccama’s market leading data quality and master data management tools to maximise the accuracy of the data and enable valuable insights, accurate reporting and informed decision-making.
Blitzy Unveils New Systems 2 AI Platform
Most AI systems to date have operated with System 1 thinking, a term coined in Daniel Kahenman’s best seller ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’. System 1 thinking drives fast, near instant results for simple, known problems. System 2 thinking is used for complex problem solving that require deep reasoning.
Cognizant Achieves ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for AI Management
ISO/IEC 42001 is the world’s first international standard for artificial intelligence management systems (AIMS). It provides organizations with a comprehensive framework to manage AI risks and opportunities throughout the AI system lifecycle, while ensuring responsible development and deployment of AI solutions.
EQTY Lab, Intel & NVIDIA Launch Verifiable Compute AI Framework
Verifiable Compute introduces a patent-pending hardware-based cryptographic AI notary and certificate system to isolate sensitive AI operations and notarize them with a tamperproof record of every data object and code computed in AI training and inference. It also provides real-time compliance checks and enforcement of AI business policies and new sovereign AI regulations such as the EU AI Act.
Equinix Partners with Dell and NVIDIA
Implementing the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA has helped customers realize impactful results, such as in the healthcare industry where streamlining radiology reports has allowed for more focus on patient care, in manufacturing where predictive maintenance and quality control have enhanced operational efficiency, and in retail with personalized customer experiences and optimized inventory management.
House Bipartisan Task Force on AI Delivers Report
Developed in consultation with committees of jurisdiction, the report includes guiding principles and forward-looking recommendations that may be appropriate to advance America’s leadership in AI innovation responsibly.
Jasper Launches New AI Studio
These new capabilities significantly lower the barrier to AI implementation and scale, accelerating time to value for marketing teams, and advancing Jasper’s mission to elevate marketers with the power of AI.
Menlo Announces Cohort of Firms Backed by Anthropic Anthology Fund
This overwhelming response underscores the massive opportunity in frontier AI development and the unique value proposition of combining Menlo’s company-building expertise with Anthropic’s cutting-edge AI technology.
NeuroBlade Integrates with Amazon EC2
With most organizations managing their data in cloud environments, offering access to data analytics-optimized instances within this infrastructure is essential—especially in the era of AI and machine learning (AI/ML), where efficiently processing vast amounts of data is critical.
Nexla is Leveraging NVIDIA NIM for Enhanced GenAI Flows
Production-grade RAG pipelines for enterprise AI applications combine advanced data retrieval and generative AI capabilities to create highly accurate, context-aware responses. The pipelines integrate structured and unstructured data sources to allow enterprises to process large datasets efficiently and deliver actionable insights in real-world AI systems, such as co-pilots and intelligent workflows.
NVIDIA Debuts NeMo Retriever
Multilingual information retrieval — the ability to search, process and retrieve knowledge across languages — plays a key role in enabling AI to deliver more accurate and globally relevant outputs. Enterprises can expand their generative AI efforts into accurate, multilingual systems using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever embedding and reranking NVIDIA NIM microservices, which are now available on the NVIDIA API catalog.
OpenAI Brings o1 Model to Developers
While developers previously had access to a preview version of o1 on top of which they could build their own apps — say, a PhD advisor or lab assistant — the production-ready release of the full o1 model through the API brings improved performance, lower latency, and new features that make it easier to integrate into real-world applications.
Protect AI Joins Microsoft Pegasus Program
The need to secure AI applications and the systems that power them has never been greater. The use of AI has expanded rapidly in recent years, but it has also introduced unique and growing security concerns that are difficult to address with existing security tools and processes. Protect AI’s industry-leading AI security platform includes a suite of products that offer comprehensive security capabilities for AI build and deployment processes.
New Rutgers-Led Survey Looks at Public Concerns Over AI
The survey is part of the National AI Opinion Monitor (NAIOM), a new Rutgers-led, long-term project monitoring public attitudes toward AI. Researchers found 41 percent of Americans said AI does more harm than good in protecting personal information.
SAS Secures Government of Canada Deal for Data & AI ‘Modernization’
The new Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA) with SAS will consolidate over 100 annual contracts into one and ease the burden on public servants across federal agencies with a unified data strategy. The Government of Canada’s Digital Ambition is an enterprise-wide plan for all things digital and helps prioritize digital initiatives and the delivery of government services.
Tray.ai Releases Merlin Agent Builder
To make it simpler for enterprises to get started with AI agents, Tray.ai also unveiled new curated Tray Agent Accelerators that provide a user-friendly experience for rapid AI agent implementation, offering templates for knowledge agents, IT ticketing agents and customer support ticketing agents. Expanding Tray.ai’s low-code AI agent development capabilities, the new advancements give enterprises the fastest, most flexible and safest path for scalable AI agent delivery.
Wherobots Makes Raster Inference for WherobotsAI Available
Raster Inference makes satellite or drone imagery analytically accessible for data developers who use SQL or Python. With flexible pay-as-you-go pricing and support for Wherobots hosted or custom computer vision models, solutions can be built from aerial imagery in hours versus weeks or months, at a fraction of the cost of starting from scratch.
Expert Insights Section
Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
Final Day of the 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact, December 10-13
The 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE! is the original celebration of enterprise tech and a 4-day virtual event dedicated to equipping builders, implementers, and experts with actionable strategies for maximizing AI’s impact across the enterprise.
Centered on the theme Strategies for AI Impact, the event features more than 25 Expert Keynotes and Roundtable panels with participation from over 100 executives and thought leaders.
Solutions Review Editors Release Annual Curation of AI Predictions by Network of Experts
As we enter 2025, artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize industries, driving innovation and reshaping how businesses operate. From foundational advancements in generative AI to cutting-edge applications in automation, decision-making, and customer experience, the AI landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosted Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks & Solutions Review Thought Leader Wayne Eckerson for an Exclusive Roundtable on Scaling Your AI with an Intelligent Data Platform
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks, and Eckerson Group to hear from experts at Databricks, Microsoft, and Neudesic as they share practical learnings and best practices to ensure successful AI outcomes.
Upcoming: The Digital Analyst with Solutions Review Thought Leader John Santaferraro Featuring the Great and Powerful Sanjeev Mohan
In this episode, John and Sanjeev Mohan talk about what’s to come in the industry in 2025. Will AI agents will eclipse generative AI? Will we see enterprise-grade agent platforms? They explore the potential winners in the AI agent space, the rise of small language models, and the need for AI literacy among executives.
NEW by Solutions Review Thought Leader Samir Sharma: Revolutionizing Business Strategy with AI
I think organisations are failing to realise AI’s transformative potential, and I know that is a bold statement, but it’s not because the technology is lacking (well in some ways it might be), but because leadership thinking is stuck in the past. Yep, there I said it! I’m not the only one saying that though as some of my colleagues in the industry, such as Bill Schmarzo, Mark Stouse, and Malcolm Hawker have said the same over the last few years.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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