NEC Orchestrating Future Fund Invests in Sakana AI to Promote Development of Generative AI

NEC Orchestrating Future Fund (NOFF), an ecosystem-based corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, has made an investment in Sakana AI, a Japan-based company that gathers technical talent from around the world to conduct research and development of generative AI.

Podcast: Agentic AI – The Dawn of Autonomous Intelligence

This insideAI News “Power to the Data” podcast discusses how AI has been transforming industries and redefining the boundaries of technology for decades. From simple machine learning algorithms that sort emails to complex neural networks that predict market trends, AI has become an integral part of modern life. Among the various branches of AI, one […]

At 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit: Vasudev Lal, Principal AI Research Scientist, Cognitive AI, Intel Labs

At the recent 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit in San Jose, Calif., I caught up with Vasudev Lal, Principal AI Research Scientist, Cognitive AI, Intel Labs, who took us on a tour of the happenings at Intel Labs, specifically around the field of Cognitive AI. He discussed some key projects that the Intel Cognitive AI team is running at this time, and how his team is advancing with Intel Gaudi AI accelerators.

DataOps.live Delivers New AIOps Capabilities with Snowflake Cortex and AWS Bedrock for End-to-End AI Workload Lifecycle Management

DataOps.live, The Data Products Company™, announced the immediate availability of its new range of AIOps capabilities, a groundbreaking set of features that provides end-to-end lifecycle management of AI workloads from development to production.

Field Report: 2024 AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit

Always looking forward for a chance to return to my home away from home of Silicon Valley, I jumped at the opportunity to attend my first-ever hardware focused conference, the 2024 AI Hardware and Edge AI put on by Kisaco Research. The event took place Sept. 9-12, 2024 in beautiful San Jose, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley.

Teradata’s ClearScape Analytics Enhancements Will Speed up AI Projects & Lower Costs 

Teradata (NYSE:TDC) announced new features and productivity enhancements to ClearScape Analytics, the most powerful, open, and connected AI/ML capabilities in the market today. These new features are designed to enable the world’s most innovative organizations to maximize the ROI of their AI/ML investments and boost data science productivity to achieve business outcomes faster and more efficiently. 

Firebolt Introduces Industry-First Low Latency Cloud Data Warehouse

Firebolt announced the next-generation Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) that delivers low latency analytics with drastic efficiency gains. Built across five years of relentless development, it reflects continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases.

New Brookings Research: The Last Mile Problem in AI

A new paper from Brookings’ Center on Regulation and Markets that studies the costs and benefits of implementing artificial intelligence systems, and to what extend costly customization is needed to make AI investments worthwhile.

e6data Raises $10m to Dismantle Auto Lock-in from Data Vendors on Analytics and AI by Halving Costs and Increasing Performance 5x

In today’s digital-first landscape, enterprises rely on powerful data and AI capabilities to fuel innovation, enhance customer experiences, and optimize operations. However, they are set to spend a staggering $100b in 2024 on data intelligence platforms to derive value from their own data.

Podcast: The Batch 7/31/2024 Discussion

Here is a an example of a wild new experimental feature from Google called NotebookLM. This new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging two-party discussions with one click. Two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go.