Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of September 27; Updates from Deloitte, Honeywell, Intel & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of September 27, 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 September 27, 2024
Altimate AI Announces AI Teammates for Data Teams; Datamates
These AI teammates are collections of AI agents automating tasks in key areas like data transformations, data documentation, data testing, and performance improvements. DataMates will be available as part of Altimate AI’s DataPilot platform, which is used every day by thousands of data and analytics engineers.
AMD Makes Instinct MI300X Accelerators Available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Designed to run demanding AI workloads including large language model (LLM) inference and training that requires high throughput with leading memory capacity and bandwidth, these OCI bare metal instances have already been adopted by companies including Fireworks AI.
Convergence Announces AI Agents with ‘Long-Term Memory’
Convergence raised a $12 million pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital. Salesforce Ventures and Shopify Ventures also participated in the round, and will be deployed to develop novel models that power Proxy assistants.
Data Dynamics Showcases Zubin AI Self-Service Data Management Tool
Zubin champions the core principles of digital trust and data democracy, guiding organizations through the AI era with confidence and clarity. By creating a unified, seamless process, Zubin fosters accountability and coherence across the enterprise, laying the foundation for a broader vision: the empowerment of citizen data rights.
Dataocean Unveils Open-Source Dataset Called GigaSpeech 2
GigaSpeech 2 is an ever-expanding, large-scale, multi-domain, and multilingual speech recognition corpus designed to promote research and development in low-resource language speech recognition. The team have also open-sourced multilingual speech recognition models trained on the GigaSpeech 2 data, achieving performance comparable to commercial speech recognition services.
Deloitte Finds Rising Concern Over Ethical AI
Report findings suggest organizations where ethical guidelines are absent or underutilized may continue to be exposed to risks and miss opportunities to enhance stakeholder trust and build social, reputational and financial value.
Domino Data Partners with NetApp on ‘Uniting Enterprise Data’
The two companies will co-develop a joint capability streamlining hybrid data and AI operations – allowing data scientists using Domino to provision and share high-performance storage volumes across cloud and on-premises environments with a single click.
Honeywell & Qualcomm Set to Develop AI-Enabled Agent Solution
Based in San Diego, CA, Qualcomm designs and manufactures semiconductors and telecommunications equipment. The company also focuses on areas like 5G connectivity, IoT (Internet of Things), automotive technology and AI, thereby enabling advanced capabilities across various applications and industries.
Intel Releases Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 AI Chips
Intel’s latest advancements in AI infrastructure include two major updates to its data center portfolio. These include Intel Xeon6 with P-cores. They’re designed to handle compute-intensive workloads with exceptional efficiency, Xeon 6 delivers twice the performance of its predecessor.
Letta Raises $10 Million Seed Funding for AI Agents with ‘Long Memory’
Letta’s focus is unlocking the next generation of AI through advanced memory systems and is led by the same research team that created the popular MemGPT open source project. Before MemGPT, the default information architecture of most AI agents was stateless, meaning that AI agents weren’t able to retain their memory (state) between user sessions.
Meta Unveils New Llama 3.2 AI Assistant
Some versions of Llama 3.2 are also the first to be optimized to run on mobile devices. This could help developers create AI-powered apps that run on a smartphone and tap into its camera or watch the screen in order to use apps on your behalf.
MLPerf Releases Storage v1.0 Benchmark on Storage Systems & AI Model Training
The MLPerf Storage benchmark is the first and only open, transparent benchmark to measure storage performance in a diverse set of ML training scenarios. It emulates the storage demands across several scenarios and system configurations covering a range of accelerators, models, and workloads.
Observe Inc. Raises $145 Million in Series B Funding
Observe’s AI Investigator orchestrates a network of domain-specific AI agents, assisting engineers in quickly identifying and resolving issues. AI agents are finely tuned for specific tasks such as accessing runbooks or prior incidents, understanding Kubernetes, AWS or Github, or generating queries to interact with Observe.
OpenAI Set to Become a For-Profit Firm
OpenAI was originally founded in 2015 as a non-profit organization. In 2019, a for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit was set up, and the organization has been headed in that direction ever since.
Snowflake Unveils AI Data Cloud for Travel and Hospitality
Snowflake is uniquely positioned to support this growth, offering a unified platform that streamlines AI and ML development, providing top-tier security and governance capabilities, and democratizing data access. With robust data collaboration capabilities and effortless scalability, Snowflake enables organizations to harness their data’s full potential.
WEKA Secures NVIDIA Cloud Network Partner Certification
The NVIDIA Cloud Partner reference architecture provides a comprehensive, full-stack hardware and software solution for cloud providers to offer AI services and workflows for different use cases. WEKA’s storage certification ensures that WEKApod appliances and hardware from WEKA-qualified server partners meet NVIDIA Cloud Partner high-performance storage (HPS) specifications for AI cloud environments.
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.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: AI in Data Lifecycle Management: Automating Risk, Compliance & Security Featuring a Panel of Experts
Moderated by Contoural CEO Mark Diamond and featuring Dave Cameron, David Loshin, Eric Kavanagh, William McKnight, and Yves Mulkers. The discussion will focus on key considerations for implementation, potential pitfalls organizations must avoid, and best practices for integrating AI into data lifecycle management.
Mini Jam LIVE On-Demand: Bridging the AI Divide: Upskilling Strategies for Enterprise Software Teams Featuring a Panel of Experts
Moderated by Ferraro Consulting CEO John Santaferraro and featuring Anders Green, Donald Farmer, Paul Byrne, and Vinnie Mirchandani. In this roundtable panel discussion, industry experts will share their insights and commentary on what makes a successful AI upskilling strategy, how teams can implement them, and why it’s essential to foster a culture of continuous learning.
New Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast Featuring MindStudio CEO Dmitry Shapiro
He explains how MindStudio enables organizations to automate workflows and tasks using AI, comparing it to the evolution of manufacturing from individual artisans to automated factories. They get into digital transformation and what it means in the modern business world.
New on Solutions Review Thought Leaders by Samir Sharma: Are Firms Ready for the Cost of AI Failures?
I attended Big Data London yesterday and felt the AI buzz in the air! I started to think about the history of the data industry as I meandered through the conference floor, steering myself away from the hype!
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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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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