Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of November 22; Updates from IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA & More
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Tim King
, Executive Editor at Solutions Review - Mobile Device Management,
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of November 22, 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 November 22, 2024
Anomalo Can Now ID Biz-Specific Data Quality Issues in Unstructured Data for AI
This announcement comes as Anomalo sees record enterprise demand for its data quality product as Generative AI surges. In the last year, Anomalo has more than doubled its customers in the Fortune 500. Anomalo has also deepened its partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and Google and received the prestigious Emerging Partner of the Year award from Databricks who also made a strategic investment in the company.
BrightAI Raises $15 Million in Seed Funding
Led by CEO and Founder Alex Hawkinson, BrightAI is an infrastructure AI company that provides Stateful OS, a platform that offers blue-collar industries to move from reactive to proactive decision-making. It is purpose-built to serve industries including critical services, water, energy, transportation, construction, power, pest control, and manufacturing.
DDN Updates its Data Intelligence Platform for the AI Era
At the core of this innovation is DDN’s deep integration with NVIDIA, bringing performance enhancements to AI and HPC workloads. With the debut of DDN’s next-generation A³I data platform, the AI400X3 organizations can now achieve a 60 percent performance boost over previous generations.
Dell Updates APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will soon offer a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking a simplified deployment and management experience. Customers can easily meet the needs of AI workloads in multicloud environments using the enterprise-class performance, scalability and data services of Dell PowerScale
Denodo Boasts Advanced AI Features and Enhanced Lakehouse Performance with New Update
Denodo Platform 9 brought intelligent data delivery to data management, with AI-driven support for natural-language queries and support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), so organizations can gain trusted, insightful results from their generative AI (GenAI) applications.
Duality AI Unveils New EDU Subscription
This educational, non-commercial license reflects Duality’s commitment to expanding access to digital twin simulation, empowering learners to build cutting-edge AI models while helping to meet the growing demand for AI and simulation professionals across diverse industries.
Graphwise Adds ‘Talk-to-Your-Graph’ Capability to GraphDB 10.8
This lets non-technical users derive real-time insights and retrieve and explore complex, multi-faceted data using natural language. GraphDB 10.8 also enables the deployment of seamless, high-availability clusters across multiple regions, ensuring zero downtime and data consistency without compromising performance.
Hitachi Vantara Announces Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX
The Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services first became available in July 2024, including a new AI Discovery Service designed to help customers identify the most valuable AI use cases, assess their data readiness, determine ROI, and create a strategic roadmap for successful AI implementation.
IBM Extends its AI Accelerator Program
This offering, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, aims to enhance performance and power efficiency for Gen AI models such as and high-performance computing (HPC) applications for enterprise clients. This collaboration will also enable support for AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators within IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform, as well as Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® AI inferencing support.
Informatica Announces New Azure AI and Analytic Features
As enterprises increasingly turn to Azure OpenAI Service LLMs and GenAI applications, Informatica’s new suite of Microsoft-specific Gen AI solutions simplifies the creation of enterprise-grade GenAI applications and Microsoft Copilot experiences. Informatica’s Gen AI Blueprint for Azure OpenAI Service empower customers.
Microsoft Makes Pitch on Autonomous AI Agents at Ignite 2024
AI developers are increasingly pitching the next wave of generative AI chatbots as AI “agents” that can do more useful things on people’s behalf. But the cost of building and running AI tools is so high that more investors are questioning whether the technology’s promise is overblown.
Model N Unveils New GenAI and Data Intelligence Tools
Integrating GenAI and intelligent data into the company’s Channel Data Management, Formulary Compliance, and Provider Management solutions showcases Model N’s strong commitment to delivering continuous innovation and excellence to the world’s most innovative brands in life sciences and high tech.
NVIDIA Launches cuPyNumeric CUDA-X Library
At SC24 this week, NVIDIA announced the release of cuPyNumeric, an NVIDIA CUDA-X library that enables over 5 million developers to seamlessly scale to powerful computing clusters without modifying their Python code. NVIDIA also revealed significant updates to the NVIDIA CUDA-Q development platform, which empowers quantum researchers to simulate quantum devices at a scale previously thought computationally impossible.
Pure Storage Drops New GenAI Pod
The Pure Storage GenAI Pod, built on the Pure Storage platform, includes new validated designs that enable turnkey solutions for GenAI use cases that help organizations solve many of these challenges. Unlike most other full-stack solutions, the Pure Storage GenAI Pod enables organizations to accelerate AI initiatives with one-click deployments and streamlined Day 2 operations for vector databases and foundation models.
Red Hat Set to Acquire Neural Magic
Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to customer-specific use cases and data, anywhere and everywhere across the hybrid cloud.
Salesforce Unveils AI Agent Lifecycle Management Tooling
This new toolchain — the first of its kind in the industry — will enable teams to test, deploy, and monitor AI agents with Agentforce at scale, with confidence, enabling every enterprise to become “agent-first.”
Securiti Partners with HPE on Enterprise AI
It is powered by a unique knowledge graph that maintains granular contextual insights about data and AI systems and supports NVIDIA NIM microservices for optimized inference performance. Gencore AI provides robust controls throughout the AI system to align with corporate policies and entitlements, safeguard against malicious attacks, protect sensitive data and provide full provenance of the AI system.
SentinelOne Introduces AI Security Posture Management
More and more organizations are deploying generative AI (GenAI) models on public clouds like AWS due to their on-demand scalability, specialized infrastructure like high-performance GPUs and TPUs, and AI management platforms like Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI.
Snorkel AI Joins AWS ISV Accelerate Program
After completing a comprehensive architectural and security review, we’ve joined the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program. Additionally, Snorkel Flow is now available in AWS Marketplace, allowing AWS customers to leverage our platform for use cases such as RAG optimization for legal contracts and LLM evaluations.
Snowflake and Anthropic Partner to Enable Claude Models on the AI Data Cloud
As a part of the multi-year partnership, Snowflake has also committed to using Claude as one of the key models powering its agentic AI offerings. Snowflake’s enterprise AI products and chatbots will come optimized for Claude out-of-the-box, so users can reduce time-to-market and begin seeing value with industry-leading accuracy and scalability. Furthermore, Snowflake will deploy Claude for internal use cases, enabling Snowflake employees to immediately create high-quality agentic workflows.
SS&C Says Most Financial Services Firms Want to See AI Benefits in 2025
Conducted at the 2024 SS&C Deliver conference, the survey of 213 industry leaders highlights how AI adoption is growing rapidly within specific departments. However, only a fraction of firms have achieved enterprise-wide integration to drive substantial, consistent value.
Statsig Unveils New Azure AI Integration
Statsig’s Azure AI SDK simplifies the implementation of features like completions and embeddings in server applications, by providing a layer of abstraction from direct Azure AI API calls and giving developers a simplified framework for implementing Azure AI models. This unlocks a very high level of flexibility for engineering teams.
WEKA Previews New Storage Solution for NVIDIA Grace CPU
NVIDIA Grace integrates the level of performance offered by a flagship x86-64 two-socket workstation or server platform into a single module. Grace CPU Superchips are powered by 144 high-performance Arm Neoverse V2 cores that deliver 2x the energy efficiency of traditional x86 servers.
Ubitium Unveils Universal RISC-V Processor for AI
Alongside this, Ubitium is announcing a $3.7 million in seed funding round, co-led by Runa Capital, Inflection, and KBC Focus Fund. The investment will be used to develop the first prototypes and prepare initial development kits for customers, with the first chips planned for 2026.
VAST & NVIDIA Data Helps Advance the Federal AI Sandbox
This solution will provide researchers and developers across multiple federal government agencies with access to NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure and software for training large language models (LLMs) and experimenting with other generative AI tools to develop AI-enabled applications.
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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.
