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Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022: IDC
July 11th, 2023 Comments Off on Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022: IDC
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 on BigPanda Unveils Automated Incident Analysis Capability Powered by Generative AI
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 on Chat With Your Data: Mixpanel Integrates Generative AI to Simplify Analytics
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 on OpenAI Launches Alignment Initiative Aimed at Mitigating ‘Superintelligent’ AI
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 on OpenAI Rival Inflection AI Raises $1.3B to Enhance Its Pi Chatbot
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 on ‘AI Will Save the World’ Says Marc Andreessen
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 ...
Runway Bags $141M Series C Extension from Google, Nvidia, Salesforce
June 30th, 2023 Comments Off on Runway Bags $141M Series C Extension from Google, Nvidia, Salesforce
Generative AI investment capital continues to flow this week. Runway, a company specializing in AI-powered content creation tools, has announced a $141 million Series C extension from Google, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, and others. This extended round builds on a ...
Nvidia and Snowflake Integration Aims to Bridge the Generative AI and Data Security Gap
June 27th, 2023 Comments Off on Nvidia and Snowflake Integration Aims to Bridge the Generative AI and Data Security Gap
As companies begin leveraging generative AI to build custom applications, ensuring their data is securely governed during the development process is proving to be tricky. Data entered into foundation LLMs is not secure, as several high-profile leaks have shown. ...
Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI
June 27th, 2023 Comments Off on Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI
Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + AI Summit, the company announced a definitive agreement for the ...
AI Will Eliminate Roles – And We Want It To
June 26th, 2023 Comments Off on AI Will Eliminate Roles – And We Want It To
By implementing AI carefully and with purpose, enterprises have the opportunity to automate mundane tasks that typically require human cognitive skills, allowing their employees to focus on more strategic business initiatives. Learning to leverage AI will be a necessity ...
