Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of February 14; Updates from Cisco, Galileo, Glean & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of February 14, 2025.
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 February 14, 2025
BARC Measures the Value of Data Assets, Products & AI Solutions
By measuring the cost-side of data—such as infrastructure, data management, compliance, and maintenance—alongside its revenue potential, organizations can create a clearer understanding of data as a legitimate asset that must be more formally managed and monetized for optimal return.
Cerebras and Perplexity AI PArtner on New Sonar Model
The collaboration, announced in an exclusive VentureBeat report, centers on Perplexity’s new Sonar model, which runs on Cerebras’s specialized AI chips at 1,200 tokens per second — making it one of the fastest AI search systems available. Built on Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B foundation, Sonar represents a significant bet that users will embrace AI-first search experiences if they’re fast enough.
Cisco Says: Most CEOs Planning AI Integration
CEOs are not standing still. With support from IT leaders and trusted partners, they plan to empower their people, modernize infrastructure, and strengthen cybersecurity to sharpen their competitive edge in an AI-driven future.
Confluent Partners with Databricks on AI Development
The bi-directional integration between the vendors connects Confluent’s Tableflow, a tool that lets users quickly move operational Kafka data into data storage repositories as tables, and the Delta Lake table storage format developed by Databricks. In addition, it connects Confluent’s Stream Governance with Databricks’ Unity Catalog to unify data governance.
Dataminr Launches New Partner Network
Partners can leverage Dataminr’s pioneering real-time AI platform, which helps hundreds of thousands professionals from leading global customers — including half of the Fortune 100 — mitigate risks and enhance operational resilience by using the fastest, most comprehensive AI powered real-time information capabilities for emerging physical and cyber security risks and high-impact events around the globe.
DataRobot Acquires Agnostiq
Businesses need the flexibility to deploy agentic AI across multiple infrastructures and compute environments, as well as the ability to dynamically manage agents based on availability, cost, and performance. This acquisition will rapidly advance agentic AI development.
Deepgram Introduces Nova-3 Voice AI
Nova-3 leverages an advanced latent space architecture to encode complex speech patterns into a highly efficient representation. This enables superior transcription accuracy, even in noisy or specialized settings, driving improved productivity, customer satisfaction, and cost efficiency.
EU Announces New InvestAI Initiative
The EU’s InvestAI fund will finance four future AI gigafactories across the EU. The new AI gigafactories will be specialised in training the most complex, very large, AI models. Such next-generation models require extensive computing infrastructure for breakthroughs in specific domains such as medicine or science. The gigafactories will have around 100 000 last-generation AI chips, around four times more than the AI factories being set up right now.
Experian Partners with ValidMind
The partnership combines the advanced data, analytics and modelling power of the Experian Ascend Platform with ValidMind’s leading solution for model governance and documentation automation. The integrated solution addresses some of the most pressing challenges that financial institutions face, including regulatory compliance, operational inefficiencies, and the need for scalable governance solutions.
Future AGI Unveils Multimodal AI Evaluation Tool
Most evaluations remain manual and superficial, with developers often defaulting to guesswork or “vibe checks” rather than informed experimentation. This fragmented ecosystem, coupled with limited domain expertise in tooling usage, makes it exceedingly difficult to pinpoint where models fail, devise data-driven remediation strategies, and ultimately treat AI development with the same rigor as modern software engineering.
Galileo Announces New Agentic Evaluations
With Agentic Evaluations, developers gain the tools and insights needed to optimize agent performance and reliability at every step—ensuring readiness for real-world deployment. As agents take on more complex and impactful workflows, the stakes—and the potential impact of errors—grow significantly.
Glean Unveils Glean AI Agents
Coupled with the introduction of universal knowledge, agents built in Glean gain access to the AI industry’s broadest range of data – enterprise structured and unstructured data, and world (internet) data, both historical and real-time. To underpin its platform, Glean strengthens trust with new robust data and AI governance features, ensuring security, compliance, and control at every stage of customer adoption.
HPE Launches ProLiant Gen12 Servers
With this launch, HPE has a number of new servers. The first two are single-socket servers. HPE told Serve the Home they are seeing a slow migration towards single CPU server designs as processors get more cores. The first is the 1U HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen12.
LexisNexis Releases 2025 Future of Work Report
Compared to LexisNexis’ 2024 Future of Work Report, the 2025 survey shows that respondents no longer see genAI as somewhat experimental but as a performance booster, with 80 percent noting genAI has met or exceeded their expectations. Significantly, 53 percent of professionals also noted saving one to two hours per day with genAI, while 30 percent saw a three-to-four-hour savings, reflecting a clear return on investment for organizations implementing the technology.
Positron Raises $23.5 Million for US-Made AI Chips
The funding will enable Positron to scale production of its U.S.-manufactured, energy-efficient AI chips, providing enterprises with a cost-effective alternative to Nvidia’s AI hardware. They are already shipping products to data centers and neoclouds around the country — a feat that is almost insurmountable to chip startups with hundreds of millions or more in backing; and a testament to the rapid product-market fit Positron has achieved since launching in 2023.
Protect AI Launches Channel Partner Program
The launch of the Protect AI Partner Program helps key resellers and channel companies empower their enterprise and government end customers to build, deploy, and manage secure, trusted AI environments.
SandboxAQ Extends Alliance with Deloitte on AI Simulation Solutions
Deloitte will augment these offerings with their data and life sciences experience combined with their deep business and technology acumen. This collaboration will help transform nearly every facet of healthcare and life sciences.
Skymel Announces Real-Time Orchestrator Agent
Powered by Skymel’s established NeuroSplit technology, the Orchestrator Agent continuously monitors and adapts deployment strategies in real time while giving developers full control over decision parameters.
Snowflake & Anthropic Partner on Enterprise AI Agents
The companies will integrate Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model into Snowflake’s new Cortex Agents platform, allowing organizations to deploy AI systems that can analyze both structured database information and unstructured content like documents within their existing security frameworks.
Tines Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding
The companies will integrate Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model into Snowflake’s new Cortex Agents platform, allowing organizations to deploy AI systems that can analyze both structured database information and unstructured content like documents within their existing security frameworks.
Zilliz Announces Upgraded Version of Zilliz Cloud
Available now, Zilliz Cloud empowers enterprises to run AI workloads where their data resides while maintaining full control, accelerating AI adoption without compromising security or compliance. The benefits of Zilliz Cloud BYOC go well beyond security. It provides organizations with a unique balance between innovation and control, designed specifically for how enterprises think about AI deployment at scale, from open-source strategies to cloud-native architectures.
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.
NEW Episode of Insight AI: The Battle for AI Supremacy Featuring Doug Shannon
Doug and Doug explore the implications of China’s Deep Seek AI announcement and its potential impact as an “AI Sputnik moment.” They discuss Project Stargate, the U.S. government’s $500 billion AI initiative, and examine how AI agents are poised to transform the workplace.
February 21! The Jam Session: Why Enterprises are Abandoning the Public Cloud Featuring Robert Eve, Philip Rusom, Ph.D., Tredence’s Arnab Sen & Flexera’s Brian Adler
In this month’s Jam Session, the panel discusses the growing trend of workload repatriation among enterprises. They’ll address questions like what factors are driving cloud repatriation, how do you decide what to repatriate, what does it take to repatriate an application or workload, and what can you do to avoid the cost and hassle of repatriation?
Solutions Review Editors Announce New e-Book: 5 Career Strategies for IT Pros to Survive & Thrive in the AI Revolution – Exclusively on Insight Jam
Drawing from industry insights and real-world examples from tech giants like IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft, this e-book offers practical guidance for IT professionals looking to remain competitive and relevant as AI continues to reshape the technology sector.
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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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