Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of October 11; Updates from Dell, Google, HPE & 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 October 11, 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 October 11, 2024
Alation Releases New AI Governance Solution
With capabilities such as lineage for AI auditability, AI documentation, data discovery and custom tagging, and data quality flags, organizations can accelerate AI development, mitigate risks, and optimize their AI investments for business impact.
ApertureData Raises $8.5 Million in Seed Funding
ApertureData is bridging a gap in today’s data infrastructure by offering a purpose-built database that provides teams with a unified solution for managing and accessing complex multimodal datasets—tailored to meet the demands of AI workflows.
Cloudera Extends Enterprise AI with New Partners
This initiative brings together a diverse group of industry-leading AI providers to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end AI solutions for customers that help to maximize the value of AI. Over the last year, the Enterprise AI Ecosystem has generated significant inbound interest and a steady flow of requests for Cloudera to build on its existing AI partners and establish new ones.
Dell Releases New PowerEdge Servers to Hasten AI Adoption
The additions to the Dell PowerEdge portfolio drive a wide range of AI use cases and traditional workloads and simplify server management and security. The platforms provide customizable and efficient solutions that simplify management and support high-performance workloads for modern enterprises.
Google Kubernetes Engine: NVIDIA NIMs Now Available
This initiative brings together a diverse group of industry-leading AI providers to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end AI solutions for customers that help to maximize the value of AI. Over the last year, the Enterprise AI Ecosystem has generated significant inbound interest and a steady flow of requests for Cloudera to build on its existing AI partners and establish new ones.
Hitachi Digital Launches the R202.ai Framework
The R2O2.ai framework is designed to bridge the gap between conceptualizing AI workloads and deploying them at scale, delivering reliable, responsible and observable AI models at unprecedented speed and efficiency — ideal for enterprises aiming to scale their AI projects responsibly and optimally. The R2O2.ai framework will further expand our proprietary HARC (Hitachi Application Reliability Centers) offering, a suite of engineering services that helps our customers build and manage systems with reliability, resiliency, security and cost efficiency.
HPE Drops AMD-Powered Tools for Training Complex AI Models
The race is on to unlock the promise of AI and its potential to dramatically advance outcomes in workforce productivity, healthcare, climate sciences and much more. To capture this potential, AI service providers, governments and large model builders require flexible, high-performance solutions that can be brought to market quickly.
IQVIA Announces New AI Assistant (Healthcare)
The race is on to unlock the promise of AI and its potential to dramatically advance outcomes in workforce productivity, healthcare, climate sciences and much more. To capture this potential, AI service providers, governments and large model builders require flexible, high-performance solutions that can be brought to market quickly.
Inflection AI Partners with Intel; Intel Launches New Gaudi 3 Chips
Intel announced on Monday that it has launched an AI cloud service featuring its new Gaudi 3 accelerator chips, saying that it will help underpin a new enterprise AI solution with hybrid cloud capabilities from generative AI startup Inflection AI.
MIT Sloan Releases New Report: Leading with AI
It features research-driven advice for using generative AI to boost the productivity of highly-skilled workers, including onboarding and role reconfiguration. It also offers a look at how eight leading companies — including Pfizer and Comcast — are using generative AI to bring products to market and communicate with customers quickly.
OpenGradient Raises $9 Million for Decentralized AI Deployment
OpenGradient is an end-to-end decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build optimized AI-empowered applications that are secured end-to-end with technologies like TLS, zkML, and hardware enclaves.
Snorkel Unveils Data-Focused AI Features for Fine Tuning of LLMs and RAG
Snorkel Flow lets you add custom acceptance criteria and validate each with out-of-the-box or custom evaluators to assess LLM performance for specific enterprise use cases, delivering the insights and confidence needed to push specialized models to production. Further, the introduction of data slicing uncovers areas where additional training data is needed.
Teradata Announces Bring-Your-Own LLM Capability
This new capability is part of Teradata’s VantageCloud Lake and ClearScape Analytics, which together help businesses quickly realize returns on their AI investments. With 84 percent of executives expecting returns from AI initiatives within a year, having access to more cost-effective options is crucial.
Vectorize Drops New Agentic RAG Platform for Enterprise Data
The Vectorize platform can enable an agentic RAG approach for near real-time data capability. Vectorize focuses on the data engineering side of AI. The platform helps companies prepare and maintain their data for use in vector databases and large language models.
Writer Aims to Add ‘Intelligent Action’ to Enterprise AI
The new frontier model ranks at the top of Berkeley’s Tool Calling Leaderboard by a significant margin, besting model providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google. It also debuted as one of the top-ranked models on Stanford University’s Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) benchmark.
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.
The Jam Session On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss Why AI Needs Good Semantics, and What to Do About It
This month, Bob Eve and guests Sumit Pal, Nicola Ashkam, and Juan Sequeda discuss the importance of semantics in AI and data management. They get into knowledge graphs and semantic layers to improve data quality, interoperability, and decision-making, and explore challenges in implementing semantic technologies. Watch for practical examples and advice on how businesses can leverage semantics to enhance AI initiatives and data strategies.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss How You Can Set Up Sandboxes for AI Experimentation
They break down the challenges of balancing experimentation with responsible implementation, the importance of executive-level AI literacy, and the need for proper guardrails and governance in AI sandboxes. They also touch on the potential costs and power requirements associated with AI infrastructure.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss Where Companies Go Wrong When Implementing AI and Data Governance
GenAI might help improve data analysis and quality, but new AI initiatives may require re-architecting data systems. The conversation also touches on the benefits of adopting streaming architectures and the importance of balancing comprehensive re-architecting with tactical, incremental improvements.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss How Firms Can Implement an AI Literacy Program
They highlight the challenge of expanding people’s imagination about AI’s potential uses beyond basic applications. The discussion also touches on the need for proper training, historical perspective, and understanding of AI’s underlying architecture and complexity.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss How Companies Can Actually Use GenAI
Think about generative AI as a “smart intern” – capable but naive. They explore how it can be integrated into various business processes, including risk management and compliance. They also address the challenges of data security and privacy when using AI, emphasizing the need for careful implementation and oversight.
Free Event on October 24 – Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks & Expert Moderator Wayne Eckerson on Scaling 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.
For consideration in future artificial intelligence news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.
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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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