Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of October 4; Updates from Anaconda, Moveworks, IBM & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of October 4, 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 4, 2024
Algolia Simplifies Data Ingestion for Developers
The next-generation Crawler is a powerful tool in data ingestion that effortlessly extracts content from an owned website. By navigating through linked pages, the Crawler quickly populates and updates Algolia AI Search indices when it detects changes automatically.
Anaconda Launches New AI Navigator
Designed with both individuals and enterprises in mind, the tool offers a secure, efficient, and user-friendly way to explore and run generative AI models on your desktop or laptop. Users can access models to perform tasks such as document analysis, content creation, and data interpretation.
Cerebras Files for IPO
Cerebras is a competitor to companies such as Nvidia, and given the massive demand among investors for chipmaker stocks, the company appears primed to start issuing shares in the near future, having applied to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CBRS.
Cirrascale Integrates NVIDIA HGX H200s
Leveraging the power of H200 GPU multi-precision Tensor Cores, an eight-way HGX H200 provides up to 32 petaFLOPS of FP8 deep learning compute and over 1.1TB of aggregate HBM3e memory for high performance in generative AI and HPC applications.
IBM Expands AI & HPC Solutions with NVIDIA H100s
NVIDIA H100 on IBM Cloud builds on IBM’s work to support generative AI model training and inferencing. Last year, IBM began making the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs available to clients through IBM Cloud, giving them immense processing headroom to innovate with AI via IBM’s watsonx platform, or as GPUaaS for custom needs.
Microsoft Drops AI Supercomputing-Optimized Azure Virtual Machines
These VMs are now generally available and have been tailored to handle the growing complexity of advanced AI workloads, from foundational model training to generative inferencing. The scale, efficiency and enhanced performance of our ND H200 v5 VMs are already driving adoption from customers and Microsoft AI services such as Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI Service.
Moveworks Unveils New Agentic Automation Platform
The Moveworks Copilot is powered by an agentic Reasoning Engine capable of performing hundreds of out-of-the-box agentic use cases. With Agentic Automation, developers can extend the power of the Moveworks Copilot by creating any agentic automation within any business application of their choice.
NVIDIA Partners with Accenture on Enterprise AI Adoption
The arrangement will see Accenture create an Nvidia Business Group dedicated to helping clients use and scale generative AI tools, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday. Accenture has trained 30,000 experts on the use of Nvidia’s technology to help their customers deploy and get benefits from it rapidly.
Sonar Tackles AI Software Development with New Features
These new capabilities are designed to support better software development in two critical and distinct ways – Sonar AI Code Assurance and Sonar AI CodeFix improve the quality of code produced by generative AI and enhance Sonar’s offering with AI to deliver a better developer experience, respectively.
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.
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.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss How Organizations Can Stay Ahead of Evolving AI Regulation
Our expert panel discusses how organizations can navigate the challenges of using generative AI while staying compliant with evolving regulations and industry standards. The panelists explore AI governance, including legal and regulatory compliance, data provenance, ethical use, and ensuring the accuracy and safety of AI outputs.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Panel of Experts Discuss the Pillars of an AI Upskilling Strategy
Our expert panel discusses the importance of upskilling strategies for organizations in the era of AI and data literacy. They explore alignment with business objectives, role-specific training, and a comprehensive understanding of AI’s impact across different sectors of an enterprise.
The Insight Jam Podcast: An Interview with Rafay Systems CEO Haseeb Budhani
Doug talks with Haseeb Budhani, co-founder and CEO of Rafay Systems, about the current state of cloud computing, platform as a service, and the impact of AI on the tech industry. They discuss the shift towards hybrid cloud environments, the challenges of data management, and the need for organizations to adapt to rapidly changing technologies.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leaders by Bob Seiner: The Power of Data Vs. AI Governance
Data Governance has been a long-standing practice aimed at ensuring data quality, security, and accessibility, while AI Governance is a relatively new field concerned with the ethical use and regulation of artificial intelligence systems.
Solutions Review Set to Host Observe AI for Exclusive Spotlight: Transforming CX: How AI-Driven Solutions Can Maximize Performance and Drive Efficiencies
Join us as we delve into strategies for leveraging automation, real-time analytics, and conversation intelligence to reduce operational costs, optimize agent performance, and improve decision-making with data. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities of implementing these technologies at scale, with a focus on delivering measurable value quickly.
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