Jaime Hampton

20 Years into the Future: Splunk Conference Showcases New AI and Edge Solutions

July 20th, 2023 Comments Off

At its .conf23 event in Las Vegas this week, Splunk unveiled a collection of new AI-powered tools across its portfolio of security and observability solutions. Splunk is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Splunk CEO Gary Steele, who joined ...

DataStax Rolls Out Vector Search for Astra DB to Support Gen AI

July 19th, 2023 Comments Off

DataStax just announced the general availability of its vector search capability in Astra DB, its DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra. Vector search is a must-have capability for building generative AI applications. In machine learning, vector embeddings are the distilled representations of ...

What an AI App Store Means for Vertical AI Developers

July 17th, 2023 Comments Off

As AI continues to advance, the industry will begin to see a distinction between two categories: horizontal and vertical applications. While horizontal models offer versatile solutions applicable across domains, vertical models cater to specific industries, providing specialized AI capabilities. ...

This Week in AI: Musk Launches xAI, Anthropic Takes Claude 2 Public, Did OpenAI Nerf GPT-4?

July 13th, 2023 Comments Off

The artificial intelligence space has been characteristically busy this week. Elon Musk is officially throwing his hat into the AI ring, Anthropic has released a more powerful version of its Claude chatbot, and OpenAI is under an FTC investigation ...

Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022: IDC

July 11th, 2023 Comments Off

Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $545.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 22.9% over 2021, according to new data from the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker. SaaS applications were the largest source of ...

BigPanda Unveils Automated Incident Analysis Capability Powered by Generative AI

July 11th, 2023 Comments Off

An emerging AIOps use case for generative AI is incident analysis for IT response teams. Identifying the root cause of incidents and anomalies in IT systems can be time and resource intensive, and complex alerts often go unnoticed or ...

Chat With Your Data: Mixpanel Integrates Generative AI to Simplify Analytics

July 7th, 2023 Comments Off

Mixpanel, a platform for event analytics, announced it has integrated generative AI capabilities into its services to allow companies to “chat with their data.” Using a new feature called Spark, Mixpanel users can now conduct a natural language chat ...

OpenAI Launches Alignment Initiative Aimed at Mitigating ‘Superintelligent’ AI

July 6th, 2023 Comments Off

What if artificial intelligence one day surpassed the intelligence of humans? This “superintelligence” is what OpenAI is anticipating – possibly within this decade – and the company has assembled a new team focused on aligning it with humanity’s best ...

OpenAI Rival Inflection AI Raises $1.3B to Enhance Its Pi Chatbot

July 3rd, 2023 Comments Off

Palo Alto-based Inflection AI, an OpenAI competitor, announced it has raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor Nvidia for a total of $1.525 billion raised. This latest ...

‘AI Will Save the World’ Says Marc Andreessen

June 30th, 2023 Comments Off

VC billionaire Marc Andreessen says the world is currently “hysterically freaking out” about artificial intelligence, and he recently wrote a 7,000-word essay to address these fears. During the Stratechery podcast, Andreessen told host Ben Thompson that he felt compelled ...

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