Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of March 21; Updates from Accenture, IBM, NVIDIA & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of March 21, 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 March 21, 2025
Accenture Extends AI Refinery with New AI Agent Builder
Part of the Accenture AI Refinery—which is built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise—the new agent builder democratizes the creation of AI agents. It enables business decision makers to create and customize agent teams based on changing business needs and market conditions—like policy changes, new products or promotional offers from competitors, unexpected customer feedback, or fluctuations in demand.
Alluxio Partners with vLLM
This joint solution moves beyond traditional two-tier memory management, enabling efficient KV Cache sharing across GPU, CPU, and a distributed storage layer. By optimizing data placement and access across different storage tiers, it delivers low-latency, greater scalability, and improved efficiency for large-scale AI inference workloads.
Anthropic Enables Claude to Search the Internet
The company announced Wednesday that web search is now available for paid US users in a “feature preview,” and to enable it, users need to toggle web search on in their profile. Anthropic’s product lead for Claude, Scott White, told The Verge the the company plans to expand to free users and more countries in the “next couple of weeks.”
Auquan Unveils AI Agent for Risk Monitoring and Detection
Unlike other AI tools that merely assist analysts, Auquan’s AI agents independently execute workflows end-to-end, from data gathering through structured reporting, freeing professionals to focus on high-value work. 40 percent of top 50 global financial services firms trust Auquan’s AI agents to transform how their investment and credit teams work by eliminating manual effort.
Cisco Partners with NVIDIA on AI Data Center Architectures
Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia will help enterprises build and secure data centers to develop and run AI workloads, “dramatically” simplifying the process for these businesses, the two companies said. The new offering will “transform” AI factories meticulously designed to power AI workloads, using co-optimized architecture from Cisco and Nvidia.
DataRobot Announces New Integrations with NVIDIA for Agentic AI
Cloud customers can now use DataRobot fully integrated and pre-installed with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, complete with a new gallery of NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA NeMo framework, including the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reasoning models, accelerating AI development and delivery.
Dell and NVIDIA Partner on Hardware & Software for AI Factory
As the top provider of AI centric infrastructure, Dell Technologies – in collaboration with NVIDIA – provides a consistent experience across AI infrastructure, software and services, offering customers a one-stop shop to scale AI initiatives from deskside to large-scale data center deployments. At the center of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is industry-leading, end-to-end infrastructure that powers AI innovation across industries from startups.
Deloitte Announces Zora AI Agentic AI Platform
Zora AI agents are intelligent digital workers with deep functional and industry-specific knowledge that emulate human decision-making and reasoning to execute complex business processes. Working as a multi-agent system, Zora AI agents can collaborate with other agents and employees to help organizations uncover new, more efficient ways of working.
H2O.ai Partners with VAST Data on Domain-Specific Insights & Agentic AI
This joint solution combines VAST Data’s modern infrastructure for storing and managing all data types (video, audio, documents, sensor data) with H2O.ai’s enterprise h2oGPTe platform to deliver retrieval-augmented answers, powerful model fine-tuning options, and grounded insights for enterprise users across on-premise, airgapped, and private cloud deployments.
HPE and NVIDIA Partner on Generative, Agentic & Physical AI Models
The new enterprise AI solution, Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, is said to be fundamentally designed for training, tuning and inferencing with improved performance, security and power efficiency. The net result is said to be that businesses of all sizes deploying generative, agentic and physical AI models can accelerate the time to value through a full-stack, turnkey private cloud for AI.
IBM Set to Launch Content-Aware Storage with NVIDIA AI Data Platform
As part of today’s news, IBM is planning to launch a content-aware storage capability for its hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, IBM Fusion; intends to expand its watsonx integrations; and is introducing new IBM Consulting capabilities with NVIDIA to help drive AI innovation across the enterprise.
Kore.ai Announces Agent Platform
Building on a decade of proven AI innovation, the platform empowers businesses to create and coordinate AI agents with customizable autonomy – from guided agents to fully autonomous systems – equipping enterprises with solutions tailored to their business needs.
Lenovo Unveils NVIDIA-Powered Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage
Building on a decade of proven AI innovation, the platform empowers businesses to create and coordinate AI agents with customizable autonomy – from guided agents to fully autonomous systems – equipping enterprises with solutions tailored to their business needs.
NVIDIA Announces the AI Data Platform
Using the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, NVIDIA-Certified Storage providers can build infrastructure to speed AI reasoning workloads with specialized AI query agents. These agents help businesses generate insights from data in near real time, using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software — including NVIDIA NIM microservices for the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models with reasoning capabilities — as well as the new NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint.
OpenAI Updates Voice-Generating AI Models
OpenAI claims that its new text-to-speech model, “gpt-4o-mini-tts,” not only delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech but is also more “steerable” than its previous-gen speech-synthesizing models. Developers can instruct gpt-4o-mini-tts on how to say things in natural language — for example, “speak like a mad scientist” or “use a serene voice, like a mindfulness teacher.”
Oracle Brings NVIDIA AI Enterprise to OCI
To support sovereign AI, among other deployments, and provide customers with easy access to NVIDIA’s accelerated, secure, and scalable platform, NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available anywhere in OCI’s distributed cloud, and customers will be able to purchase it with their existing Oracle Universal Credits.
Pinecone Launches Pinecone for Agents & More
Every day this week, Pine rolled out new features to better support you in building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. The blog linked below will serve as your go-to hub for all announcements.
Rerun Raises $17 Million in Funding for Multimodal Data Stack for Physical AI
Rerun is launching a new database and cloud data platform purpose-built for Physical AI data and workflows. The database is designed to manage complex multimodal data such as video streams, 3D scenes, and tensors that evolve at varying rates over time.
VAST Data Announces New InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX
It converges instant automated data ingestion, exabyte-scale vector search, event-driven orchestration, and GPU-optimized inferencing into a single system with unified global enterprise-grade security – enabling businesses to efficiently accelerate AI adoption and time-to-value by unlocking AI-driven insights.
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.
Solutions Review Set to Host IBM for Exclusive Show on Navigating GenAI Challenges in Oil & Gas Asset Management on April 8
Hear from industry experts Carol Lee Andersen, VP of Global Oil & Gas Industry Leader and Ravi Teja Siragam, GTM Product Manager, Maximo for Oil & Gas and take a deep dive into the significant challenges facing ALM in the oil and gas sector, alongside showcasing how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize traditional practices.
Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Show on Reducing AI Response Times with Infinidat AI RAG Workflow Architecture on March 25
Hear from industry experts Eric Herzog, Bill Basinas, and Wei Wang. Learn how Infinidat’s enterprise-class storage makes specialized storage systems unnecessary for AI RAG deployments. Product demo included!
NEW Episode of The Insight Jam Podcast Featuring AI Influencer John Rush
In this wide-ranging conversation, John Rush shares his journey from traditional VC-backed startups to creating AI-powered agents that allow him to run multiple businesses as a solo founder. He discusses how he’s developed seven public agents (and 26 total projects) that help automate everything from SEO to coding, enabling him to compete with companies that have 50-100 employees.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring Hyoun Park: The Plummeting Cost of AI
They discuss how AI model training costs have plummeted from $50 million to potentially just $50 in compute costs, the shift toward smaller specialized models rather than massive foundation models, and what these developments mean for enterprise AI adoption. The conversation explores how affordable AI will accelerate agent development and the challenges of orchestrating multiple AI agents to work together effectively.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Who Should Be Responsible for AI Governance?
The panel explores different leadership models, the importance of cross-functional collaboration, and practical approaches to defining roles and responsibilities. They draw parallels to established information governance practices while addressing the unique challenges of AI. Essential viewing for organizations developing AI governance structures that balance innovation with risk management.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: How Can We Create Culture that Embraces AI and the Human?
The panel explores how to position AI as a collaborative partner, address employee fears, and implement sandbox environments for experiential learning. They emphasize the importance of executive sponsorship, integrating AI into existing workflows, and recognizing uniquely human skills. A must-watch for organizations looking to balance technological advancement with employee development.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Does AI Fundamentally Change Data Architecture?
Our data architecture experts discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming enterprise data systems. The panel explores why organizations need to bring AI operations closer to data, the growing importance of semantic layers, and the rise of graph-based approaches. They address challenges in metadata management, data fragmentation, and the need for shared language across organizational silos. Essential viewing for data professionals planning AI-ready architectures.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Paula Caligiuri: Fostering Soft Skills for a Challenging Culture
Soft skills are pivotal for success in a complex, fast-paced, and ever-changing work world. To ready the workforce for the changes to come, leaders need to equip their team members with a new set of soft skills required for adaptability. These soft skills are resilience, relationship-building, humility, perspective-taking, curiosity, and tolerance of ambiguity.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Robert Eve: Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI
If you are among the four million people who ride London’s Tube daily, you are undoubtedly familiar with its ubiquitous warning: Mind The Gap. That warning came to mind recently when I read a thought-provoking article, “The Gorilla in the Quadrant: Why Your Data and AI Governance Strategy Needs More Than Gartner’s Report,” by my friend and fellow Solutions Review Expert David Sweenor.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Gregory Lewandowski: Will Baidu’s ERNIE Challenge Global AI Leaders?
Baidu’s launch of ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 AI models marks a strategic advancement in AI capabilities, particularly in reasoning and multimodal tasks. Competing with Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and xAI’s Grok 3, ERNIE X1 aims to deliver premium performance at a significantly lower cost. This focus on affordability and accessibility represents a notable shift in the competitive AI landscape.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Doug Shannon: AI Agents – Turning Science Fiction Into Reality
AI Agents are not just tools, they are autonomous enablers that transform how businesses operate, scale, and innovate. They empower enterprises to reimagine workflows, solve challenges, and create entirely new possibilities. But moving from vision to reality requires a deliberate progression, in this case, guided by my 𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐎 model: “𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐃𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞.”
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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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