Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of September 13; Updates from Deloitte, OutSystems, Oracle & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of September 13, 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.
Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of September 13, 2024
AnswerRocket Announces Support for Gemini and Anthropic Claude LLMs
This approach ensures that companies can optimize their data insights by using the most appropriate model for each task, whether it involves structured or unstructured data. An LLM-agnostic approach is critical in today’s evolving AI landscape as it provides optimization, customization, and resilience, allowing businesses to select the best model for each specific task.
AtScale Announces the Open-Sourcing of its Semantic Modeling Language
This initiative aims to provide an industry-standard semantic modeling language that can be adopted across various platforms, fostering greater collaboration and interoperability in the analytics community. The introduction of SML marks a major step in the company’s decade-long journey of democratizing data analytics and advancing semantic layer technology.
Credo AI Releases New AI Vendor Registry
The GenAI Vendor Registry launches with pre-populated data for leading AI vendors and developers, including OpenAI, Microsoft, IBM, GitHub, Salesforce, Anthropic, Databricks, Codeium, Glean, AskSage, and Meta. The registry enables enterprises to easily consolidate risk and compliance data and provides Responsible AI (RAI) benchmarks for specific vendors.
Dataiku Finds Senior AI Pros Seeing Return from GenAI Investment
The findings underscore a wave of growing optimism, as 65 percent of respondents verified that they are experiencing positive returns on the GenAI projects they have put into production, demonstrating that these initiatives are not only guided by strategic foresight but are also financially rewarding.
Deloitte Unveils AI Factory as a Service – Powered by NVIDIA
Amid a fast-paced and turbulent market, AI Factory as a Service provides a holistic multi-disciplinary approach that integrates Deloitte’s deep data science, model design and industry knowledge with the NVIDIA AI platform to enable a robust ecosystem of technology providers to deliver customized GenAI workflows.
Druva Announces GenAI Powered Data Security Investigation Tool
With Dru Investigate, users across IT, security, legal, and privacy teams can swiftly identify and mitigate data risks without needing to write complicated queries. Built on Amazon Bedrock, an AWS service to easily build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models, Dru Investigate leverages Druva’s insights from protected data to streamline cyber and legal investigations.
Elasticsearch Extends Support for Hugging Face Models with Semantic Text
Developers can now quickly ship generative AI (GenAI) applications without the burden of writing custom chunking logic, leveraging the Elasticsearch Open Inference API integration with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints.
Hubbl Announces AI Partnership with Swantide to Enable Salesforce Teams
This collaboration empowers Salesforce teams and System Integrators with an end-to-end experience that both identifies optimization recommendations and automates their implementation. By quickly and efficiently addressing these key insights, this partnership enhances business productivity, reduces shelf-ware, and inspires what’s next, elevating the overall Salesforce ownership experience.
Informatica Releases Blueprint for OCI GenAI
Delivered by Informatica cloud consultants, this latest solution blueprint provides customers with a template for an end-to-end data platform with no-code or low-code retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chain orchestration for LLMs.
Landbase Unveils New AI Agent Platform
The startup distinguishes itself with a proprietary knowledge graph incorporating private data on company firmographics, individual profiles, and campaign performance metrics. This approach allows for more informed predictions and recommendations compared to models trained solely on public data.
Lenovo Launches New Services to Fast-Track AI Transformations
Paving the way to “Smarter AI for All,” the new services go beyond the cloud and bring on-demand AI to the customer, helping any business use its on-prem proprietary data to build, scale and evolve generative AI. With the new solutions, businesses can build, scale and evolve private AI faster with GPU resources on demand, AI-driven systems management and advanced liquid cooling services.
OpenAI Launches New Series of Reasoning Modules
As an early model, it doesn’t yet have many of the features that make ChatGPT useful, like browsing the web for information and uploading files and images. For many common cases GPT-4o will be more capable in the near term.
Operant AI Raises $10 Million Series A Funding
This investment brings Operant AI’s total funding to $13.5 million, which they will use to accelerate team and product expansion bringing unprecedented transparency and active cloud-native protection to all APIs, AI, and cloud applications with a particular focus on securing the entire data-in-use lifecycle as it flows through every layer of modern application environments.
Oracle Announces New Cloud Computing Clusters Featuring the NVIDIA Blackwell Platform
OCI is now taking orders for the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud—available with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs—delivering a theoretical 2.4 zettaFLOPS of peak performance. The maximum scale of OCI Supercluster offers more than three times as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer and more than six times that of other hyperscalers.
O’Reilly Launches New AI Academy
The latest feature will be available to current subscribers who have full access to the O’Reilly online learning platform and will also be offered as a standalone subscription for all organizations interested in upskilling their workforces on the new technology.
OutSystems and KPMG Ponder the Future of AI & Software Development
84 percent of respondents reported that their organizations first began to incorporate AI technologies in their SDLCs between six months to five years ago, with the earliest adopters primarily being IT services companies. Across regions, EMEA and North America remain roughly on equal footing, while APAC is steadily catching up.
Qlik Updates AutoML Capabilities
These updates make it easier for analytics teams to build and deploy high-performing machine learning models, providing native analytics to explain predictions in real-time. With full integration into Qlik Cloud, these features enable businesses to move from reactive to proactive decision-making, helping them anticipate trends, address challenges, and optimize outcomes with greater confidence.
Salesforce Unveils New Industries AI Offerings
Industries AI is now embedded within each of the company’s industry cloud offerings, covering sectors from financial services and healthcare to manufacturing and the public sector. Each industry-specific AI capability is designed to address unique challenges, such as matching patients to clinical trials in life sciences or optimising inventory management in consumer goods.
ThoughtSpot Finds 70 Percent Prioritize GenAI for Data and Analytics
The report drew responses from 1,000 business and data leaders in multiple industry sectors across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Of the 1,000 global respondents, 67 percent are already leveraging generative AI for an analytics use case, with 26 percent planning to, and 7 percent evaluating its use.
Virtualitics Brings AI Decision Intelligence to the US Air Force
Virtualitics’ AI-powered platform and flexible suite of readiness applications are uniquely positioned to address these technical challenges by delivering actionable insights and recommendations that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance operations, resource allocation, and decision-making.
Vitreus Nabs $15 Million Funding for Decentralized AI Adoption
Over the next two years, GEM will engage in ongoing OTC purchases of wVTRS, supporting Vitreus’ growth while ensuring stability within the market. This partnership aligns with the long-term goals of both Vitreus and GEM, ensuring a collaborative approach to driving innovation and expansion within the blockchain industry.
WEKA & S&P Global Release New GenAI Study
The global study, conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence and commissioned by WEKA, surveyed over 1500 AI practitioners and decision-makers to understand the underlying trends influencing AI adoption and implementation. It also provides insights into the key practices of organizations now emerging as leaders in the AI revolution.
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.
Expert Insights by Robert Eve: Why AI Needs Good Semantics & What to Do About It
How often have you heard someone exasperatingly state, “That’s just semantics,” when claiming that one word is just a synonym for another? That’s a reasonable statement in light conversation, but a misinformed one in today’s complex data management landscape.
The Jam Session (September): Why Now is the Time to Move to Data-Centric AI
This month on The Jam Session, host Bob Eve brings on data pros Michael Magalsky, Guy Adams, and David Sweenor to explore the shift towards data-centric AI and its importance in today’s business landscape.
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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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