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Alex Woodie

Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.

Alluxio Claims 4X GPU Speed Boost for AI Training

October 18th, 2023 Comments Off

Customers that use the high-speed cache in the new Alluxio Enterprise AI platform can squeeze up to four times as much work out of their GPU setups than without it, Alluxio announced today. Alluxio also says the overall model ...

Alation Adds GenAI to Data Catalog

October 13th, 2023 Comments Off

Alation is rolling out a new offering dubbed ALLIE AI that’s aimed at helping data stewards better organize data when it’s being ingested into the company, as well as to streamline and simplify how customers ultimately find what they’re ...

Anyscale and Nvidia In LLM Hookup

September 20th, 2023 Comments Off

GenAI developers building atop large language models (LLMs) are the big winners of a new partnership between Anyscale and Nvidia unveiled this week that will see the GPU maker’s AI software integrated into Anyscale’s computing platform. Anyscale is best known ...

Databricks Raises $500 Million in Pre-IPO Round

September 14th, 2023 Comments Off

Databricks hasn’t gone public yet–the market just hasn’t been right this year for that–but it did the next best thing today when it raised $500 million in a growth round of funding. The Series I round included investments by ...

GenAI Adoption, By the Numbers

September 13th, 2023 Comments Off

As the freight train that is generative AI continues barreling down the track to an uncertain destination, we thought it would be good to take some time to stop and ponder where we’re currently at in terms of GenAI ...

New Language Mojo Seeks End to AI Framework Sprawl

September 7th, 2023 Comments Off

A software development kit for Mojo, a new Python-based language for AI development created by former Google engineers, is now available for download on Linux systems, with support for Mac and Windows coming soon, the company behind Mojo announced ...

Duet AI Goes Everywhere in Google’s Cloud

August 29th, 2023 Comments Off

Google Cloud introduced several more uses for Duet AI, the AI interface unveiled earlier this year. Data engineers will be singing duets with integrations for BigQuery, AlloyDB, and Cloud Spanner, while data analysts will be in ML harmony with ...

Google Extends Vertex with More GenAI Features

August 29th, 2023 Comments Off

Generative AI is taking the world by storm, as organizations discover the myriad ways it can be used to serve and entice customers. With today’s enhancements to Vertex AI, Google Cloud is giving its customers more GenAI capabilities to ...

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Enterprise

August 28th, 2023 Comments Off

OpenAI today announced the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, a new GPT-4-based service that offers stronger security and privacy protections, support for longer inputs, and new data analysis capabilities, among other new features. OpenAI kicked off the generative AI craze in ...

Privacy and Ethical Hurdles to LLM Adoption Grow

August 25th, 2023 Comments Off

Large language models (LLMs) have dominated the data and AI conversation through the first eight months of 2023, courtesy of the whirlwind that is ChatGPT. Despite the consumer success, few companies have concrete plans to put commercial LLMs into ...