Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of October 25; Updates from Graphwise, Infosys, Zoho & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of October 25, 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 25, 2024
Accenture Invests in Reality Defender
Reality Defender’s real-time voice detection platform catches audio-based deepfakes as they happen, while audiovisual detection finds even the most advanced AI-generated faces in images and videos made using the latest generative AI models.
Anthropic AI Now Writes and Runs Code
The capability is tailored to software developers and represents a move toward AI agents, programs that require little human intervention to carry out multi-step actions. Researchers have touted agents as a frontier for AI development beyond chatbots, which easily conjure prose or computer code though not actions.
Appen Drops Annual State of AI Report
While growing, the adoption of AI-powered technologies such as machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) are hindered by a lack of accurate and high-quality data. The report found a 10 percentage point year-over-year increase in bottlenecks related to sourcing, cleaning, and labeling data.
AuditBoard Extends AI Features in Risk & Compliance Platform
AuditBoard and Ascend2 Research recently conducted a survey finding 89 percent of organizations plan to use AI but face challenges such as data privacy concerns and high costs, showcasing the balancing act organizations must perform to leverage the benefits of AI while mitigating associated risks.
Ataccama Unveils New AI Agent for Data Management
Utilizing powerful AI-powered tools, it acts as a dedicated data companion to automate a wide range of data quality configurations including bulk DQ rule creation, intelligent DQ rule mapping, and automated DQ evaluation, and answer queries for finding data assets to help business and technical users.
Box Partners with AWS on GenAI & Enterprise Content
Organizations can now garner more intelligence from their data using a Box connector for Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative AI assistant for work. This is helping organizations to quickly get answers, summarize information, generate content, and securely complete tasks using their private data already managed in Box.
Cockroach Labs Partners with AWS on Cloud Migrations and GenAI
This collaboration comes on the heels of recent announcements including the launch of Pay-As-You-Go CockroachDB Cloud on AWS Marketplace, Cockroach Labs achieving AWS Financial Services Competency Status, and the Introduction of CockroachDB’s vector search capabilities to support generative AI (GenAI) workloads.
Cisco Releases New AI-Powered Webex Tools
These AI solutions leverage advanced conversational intelligence and automation to enhance customer interactions, streamline issue resolution and improve overall customer satisfaction. This enables business leaders to deliver faster, more effective and more empathetic interactions that improve customer trust and brand loyalty.
Cognizant Leveraging NVIDIA RAPIDS to Solve for Surging Cloud Costs
The rapid growth of data and the need for real-time analytics have led to escalating costs and performance bottlenecks. Traditional CPU-based methods can fall short in handling large-scale data processing efficiently, leading to higher potential operational costs and slower organizational decision-making.
Confluent Announces Confluent for Startups AI Accelerator
As real-time AI continues to transform industries, Confluent is uniquely positioned to help startups harness the potential of data streaming to drive intelligent, automated decisions at scale. If you’re developing real-time AI-driven data applications, this program is specifically designed to help your startup accelerate growth, optimize development, and bring groundbreaking products to market quickly.
Dataloop Partners with Qualcomm
Dataloop enables AI developers to streamline the entire AI lifecycle through an automated pipeline that includes data curation, labelling, model fine-tuning, and integration with Qualcomm AI Hub, which compiles, optimizes, and profiles the ready-to-deploy model.
DataRobot Finds Only 34 Percent of AI Pros Equipped to Meet Goals
Nearly 700 AI practitioners and AI leaders worldwide were surveyed using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. The survey captured feedback from a wide range of roles and seniority levels — Data Scientists, ML Engineers, DevOps, IT professionals, and more — across organizations at various stages of AI maturity.
Flatfile Adds AI Tools to Data Exchange Platform
The Fall 2024 release includes new AI data transformation and data migration functionality that enables users to process massive data sets 10x faster than before. With the new products, companies are able to manage end-to-end data preparation workflows in the Flatfile Data Exchange platform, while enhancing performance, security and efficiency.
Graphwise: Semantic Web Company Merges with Ontotext
Semantic Web Company brings expertise in knowledge engineering, semantic AI and intelligent document processing, while Ontotext brings the most versatile graph database engine and state-of-the-art AI models for linking and unifying information at scale.
Hammerspace Says GPUs the Driving Force Behind New AI Projects
Enterprise AI adoption is still in its exploration stages, but companies are finding innovative ways to leverage their GPU investments beyond AI applications and reaping good results, according to a new report from Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle.
IBM Unveils Granite 3.0
Consistent with the company’s commitment to open-source AI, the Granite models are released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, making them unique in the combination of performance, flexibility and autonomy they provide to enterprise clients and the community at large.
Infosys Collabs with University of Cambridge on New AI Lab
The Infosys Living Labs located in London’s world-renowned banking district of Canary Wharf will enable a confluence of digital technologies, business insights and human experience for clients and partners. A hub for innovation activities, it will help leverage solution accelerators, digital experiences, frameworks, and industry solutions to ideate, prototype, and test breakthrough ideas.
K2view Says 2 Percent of US & UK Firms Ready for GenAI Deployment
Many companies even abandon projects after the proof-of-concept stage due to inadequate data guardrails, a lack of real-time access to fresh, multi-source data, and escalating costs, underscoring the critical role of data in the success of GenAI initiatives.
OpenText and Capgemini Release 2024 World Quality Report
Quality Engineering that was once defined as testing human-written software has now evolved with AI generated code. From the volume of code and test scripts that need to be generated, to how software chains have to be tested end-to-end, the need for redefinition of Quality Engineering is reshaping the focus and strategy of many testing and software engineering teams.
Persistent Systems Releases SASVA 2.0
Engineered to drive productivity gains throughout the development process, this innovative platform now expands its capabilities beyond the traditional Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It delivers a fully integrated end-to-end solution from ideation to post-deployment operations for businesses across industries to drive innovation and enhance customer experiences.
ServiceNow Drops New Workflow Data Fabric
ServiceNow also announced Zero Copy connectors to optimize the company’s integration capabilities so customers can turn data into instant, AI-powered action. Additionally, ServiceNow announced a strategic partnership with leading systems integrator Cognizant as the first partner to bring Workflow Data Fabric to market for customers.
SnapLogic Unveils New SnapLogic Agent Creator
By combining dynamic iteration with real-time generative decision-making, SnapLogic Agent Creator builds a symbiotic relationship between the people on the front lines of the business, your IT team and executives, via powerful AI at anyone’s fingertips. The opportunity to integrate Generative AI in business continues to grow, and customers are using the full Snaplogic platform to unlock the power of AI in a cost-effective manner.
Stibo Says: Leaders Rushing AI Adoption
The report covers survey insights from 500 U.S. business leaders (director-level and above) across multiple sectors, including retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), manufacturing, banking, insurance and life sciences. The survey found that 32 percent of business leaders admit they have rushed AI adoption, while 58 percent acknowledge a lack of AI ethics training. Additionally, 86 percent express a desire for more training on how to responsibly use AI.
Zoho to Build LLMS Using NVIDIA NeMo
Zoho prioritizes user privacy from the outset to create models that are compliant with privacy regulations from the ground up rather than retrofitting them later. Its goal is to help businesses realize ROI swiftly and effectively by leveraging the full stack of NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing to increase throughput and reduce latency.
Expert Insights Section
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New Episode of Insight AI Featuring Doug Shannon: Going Nuclear
Doug and Doug dig into Microsoft’s surprising acquisition of Three Mile Island and the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence. They examine the new Department of Labor guidelines for AI in the workplace and the Treasury Department’s successful use of AI to prevent billions in fraud. Learn how AI is reshaping both government operations and corporate strategy!
SR Expert @ Insight Jam John Santaferraro: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI for Data and Analytics – Part 2
Just as enterprise metadata governance and management are fundamental to enabling safe, scalable, and compliant analytics solutions, they are equally foundational for the use of AI and automation. Given access to metadata, generative AI can govern the use of data and ultimately produce more accurate insights for users that are often unaware of the importance of governance.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Is Data Quality the CIO’s AI Dilemma?
I’ve seen and read so many articles on data quality over the last year or so, and of course this is down to the introduction of AI specifically LLMs etc., which makes data quality, suddenly the hot topic that everyone is moaning, I mean discussing! I’ve seen a lot of talk on LinkedIn about how many companies have stood up Lakehouses over the years and are now in the pursuit of clean data for AI tools.
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