Artificial Intelligence Articles
Neo4j, the graph database and analytics company, is announcing that it has integrated native vector search into its core database capabilities, introducing massive support for the ever-popular and -growing world of generative AI, semantic search, and LLMs.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to help joint clients accelerate the deployment of generative AI—while also delivering a new offering that will provide clients with the expertise and technology they need to innovate their business processes and scale generative AI effectively. IBM Consulting, in collaboration with Microsoft, will focus on helping clients to implement and scale Azure OpenAI Service.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is introducing watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z and enhance developer productivity on the platform. According to IBM, this product will be generally available in Q4 2023, and is being designed to help accelerate COBOL application modernization. Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will preview during TechXchange, IBM's premier technical learning event in Las Vegas, Sept 11-13.
Posted August 28, 2023
Experts in AI and ML joined DBTA's webinar, Enabling Broader AI and ML Analytics Adoption: Data Platforms, Tools, and Practices, to delve into the myriad of ways that enterprises seeking to implement these wildly popular concepts can do so with agility, governance, integration, automation, and best practices in mind.
Posted August 25, 2023
VMware, Inc. is launching new Private AI offerings to drive enterprise adoption of generative artificial intelligence and tap into the value of trusted data. The announcement was made at VMware Explore 2023. Private AI is an architectural approach that unlocks the business gains from AI with the practical privacy and compliance needs of an organization, according to the company.
Posted August 23, 2023
SpringML, a technology services company, is merging with Egen, a cloud migration, application modernization and platform engineering provider, creating a provider with end-to-end capabilities across the cloud, data, analytics, AI, and platform engineering spectrum. The combined business will have all the capabilities necessary to increase the value and accelerate the timeline of the data-driven digital journeys of private and public sector clients.
Posted August 17, 2023
Vectra AI, a provider in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, is offering the Vectra AI Platform with patented Attack Signal Intelligence, delivering the integrated signal enterprises need to make extended detection and response (XDR). With the Vectra AI Platform, enterprises can integrate Vectra AI's public cloud, identity, SaaS, and network signal with existing endpoint detection and response (EDR) signal to arm SOC teams to keep pace with the ever-growing sophistication, speed, and scale of hybrid attacks, according to the vendor.
Posted August 16, 2023
Apica, the synthetic monitoring and observability company, is announcing the achievement of several proprietary milestones, including the acquisition of observability data fabric start-up LOGIQ.AI and the conclusion of the company's most recent funding round—accumulating a total of $10 million.
Posted August 16, 2023
In the 1992 movie Sneakers, hackers discover a device that can break the encryption of virtually any computer system. At the time of release, the idea seemed far-fetched. But today, because of quantum computers, we may soon have a similar device. Quantum theory is now approaching its 100th anniversary, with the central tenants of the theory having been well-established by the mid-1920s. Together with general relativity, quantum theory is one of the foundational theories of modern science. Our modern world would not be possible without quantum theory: It's central to the design of semiconductors, lasers, MRIs, and even LEDs.
Posted August 16, 2023
Code42 Software, Inc., the Insider Risk Management (IRM) leader, is partnering with Tines—the no-code automation platform for security teams—to release Incydr Flows, powered by Tines to enable security teams to simplify manual, error-prone, and cross-functional workflows.
Posted August 15, 2023
MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database enabling the creation of the next wave of AI-centered applications, announced it has received an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to $46.5 million. The latest round—which includes existing investors Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, OpenOcean, and Walden Catalyst—will further advance MindsDB's mission, making AI more accessible to all businesses by enabling the world's 30 million software developers to implement AI capabilities in their products.
Posted August 15, 2023
PEAK:AIO, a provider of a transformative software defined storage platform, is partnering with Stormgrid, a provider of cutting-edge hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, offering state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability for Stormgrid's burgeoning customer base.
Posted August 14, 2023
Virtualitics, Inc., an artificial intelligence and data exploration company, announced it has raised $37 million in a Series C financing round, empowering the company to invest in growth and innovation to drive even greater expansion. The funding will go toward ecosystem investments and investments to enhance its AI platform leadership by adding more machine learning and data analytics capabilities as well as self-serve prescriptive workflows to make it easy for customers to analyze and understand complex data and transform their business.
Posted August 14, 2023
Unravel Data, an AI-enabled data observability and FinOps platform, is releasing Unravel 4.8.1, enabling Google Cloud BigQuery customers to see and better manage their cloud data costs. This launch comes on the heels of the recent BigQuery pricing model change that replaced flat-rate and flex slot pricing with three new pricing tiers, and will help BigQuery customers to implement FinOps in real time to select the right new pricing plan based on their usage, and maximize workloads for greater return on cloud data investments.
Posted August 11, 2023
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, Modernizing Data Integration and Governance for the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Era, to discuss innovative approaches toward overcoming data silos while simultaneously ensuring both effective governance and access.
Posted August 10, 2023
CISO Global, Inc., a provider of managed cybersecurity and compliance solutions, is introducing Argo Edge, combining the most sought-after security technologies on the market with CISO's proprietary IP and threat feeds for a pre-built and easy-to-implement combined platform. This new solution has been independently valued at $49 million.
Posted August 10, 2023
Syxsense, a provider of unified security and endpoint management (USEM) solutions, is releasing Cortex Copilot, a new AI engine that allows IT and security administrators to simplify and speed up the process of creating endpoint management and security workflow automation.
Posted August 10, 2023
Existing data infrastructures are crumbling under the weight of data, leading to unsustainable energy consumption, increased management complexity, and declining security. That's the word from a recent survey of 1,288 executives, released by Hitachi Vantara. The survey also finds 76% feel their current data infrastructures "will be unable to scale to meet upcoming demands"—such as AI. Another 61% report they are simply "overwhelmed" by the amount of data they manage. By 2025, the report's authors predict, large organizations will be storing more than 65 petabytes (PB) of data.
Posted August 10, 2023
With more data than ever being created, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics is a top priority for many organizations. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers.
Posted August 09, 2023
Torq, the hyperautomation cybersecurity provider, is debuting Torq Socrates, a Tier-1 analysis AI agent designed to hyperautomate security processes for enterprises bogged down by overwhelming security workloads and a small talent pool.
Posted August 09, 2023
VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI era, is unveiling its data computing platform, engineered to underpin the burgeoning world of AI that rivals the capabilities of other existing data platforms.
Posted August 09, 2023
SnapLogic, a provider of generative integration, is introducing SnapGPT, a generative integration solution that empowers everyone to integrate faster and easier. Leveraging open source and proprietary large-language models and artificial intelligence, SnapGPT allows users to integrate any applications or data sources with natural language.
Posted August 04, 2023
Ontotext is releasing GraphDB 10.3, introducing new features such as the integration of ChatGPT, a popular large language model (LLM), to greatly assist users in comprehending SPARQL queries and results, while also providing a new mechanism to enrich RDF data. With the integration of ChatGPT, users will now be able to delve into the world of RDF with greater ease and gain a deeper understanding of its capabilities.
Posted August 03, 2023
Dell Technologies is dipping its feet into the generative AI space with new offerings to help customers quickly and securely build generative AI (GenAI) models on-premises, aiming to accelerate improved outcomes and drive new levels of intelligence.
Posted August 03, 2023
Dynatrace, the leader in unified observability and security, is expanding its Davis AI engine to create a hypermodal artificial intelligence (AI), converging fact-based, predictive- and causal-AI insights with new generative-AI capabilities. According to the company, the expanded Davis AI will boost productivity across business, development, security, and operations teams by delivering generative-AI recommendations fueled by precise context from predictive- and causal-AI techniques that reflect the unique attributes of each organization's hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystem.
Posted August 01, 2023
Protect AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has closed a $35M Series A round of funding, enabling the company to scale sales and marketing, go to market activities, R&D, and customer success initiatives.
Posted August 01, 2023
Bfore.AI, a predictive security solution, is releasing its signature PreCrime solution suite, expanding predictive threat intelligence and reinforcing proactive digital risk protection (DRP) to accelerate early identification and remediation, optimize security operations, and take preemptive actions against online fraud.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM Security released its annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report," revealing that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023—an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last 3 years. Detection and escalation costs jumped 42% over this same time frame, representing the highest portion of breach costs, and indicating a shift towards more complex breach investigations.
Posted July 31, 2023
Wallaroo.AI, the company scaling production machine learning (ML) from the cloud to the edge, and Ampere, the modern semiconductor company, are announcing their strategic collaboration, aimed toward creating optimized hardware and software solutions that innovate on efficiency, sustainability, and lower cost per inference for cloud AI.
Posted July 27, 2023
Teradata is acquiring Stemma Technologies (Stemma), a cloud-native, fully managed, data catalog solution, adding AI to accelerate transformative analytics value for customers. Stemma's robust data catalog solution will strengthen Teradata's data fabric and accelerate the analytic productivity of the Vantage platform, according to Teradata.
Posted July 26, 2023
Cosmo Tech announced that its Supply Chain Vulnerability Scan is now available on the SAP Store, arming SAP Integrated Business Planning software with an AI-Simulation add-on to deliver supply chain resilience at all levels of planning to customers.
Posted July 26, 2023
SAP announced it is making strategic direct investments in three leading generative AI companies, furthering its commitment to deliver Business AI that's relevant, reliable, and responsible. The investments in Aleph Alpha GmbH, Anthropic PBC, and Cohere reinforce SAP's open ecosystem approach to AI, leveraging the best technology to embed AI across the SAP portfolio, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is announcing the recent completion of its acquisition of Mode Analytics, the modern business intelligence (BI) platform that brings data teams and business teams together to drive impact.
Posted July 19, 2023
CodeSee, provider of the first code visibility platform, is announcing the latest feature to join its robust platform—generative AI-powered codebase understanding.
Posted July 19, 2023
Digital.ai, a leading AI-powered DevSecOps platform, is adding AI capabilities across its solutions that provide customers with enhanced software delivery capabilities and insights for better decision making. Digital.ai's AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform reflects enterprise demand to use AI to improve decision making, help govern and orchestrate the release of software created and optimized by generative AI tools, and automate software delivery workflows further with AI, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2023
Oracle is adding generative AI-powered capabilities to Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI service and embedded in existing HR processes to drive faster business value, improve productivity, enhance the candidate and employee experience, and streamline HR processes.
Posted July 19, 2023
Experts in next-generation solutions and architectures joined DBTA's webinar, The Race to Unified Analytics: Next-Gen Data Platforms and Architectures, to examine both the business potential of new technologies, as well as its common hurdles—such as data silos, complex data and analytic systems, remaining legacy technologies, integration, and governance and security—that prevent the fruition of a modern, data-accessible enterprise.
Posted July 18, 2023
IBM announced it is rolling out IBM watsonx—the enterprise-ready AI and data platform. watsonx comprises three products to help organizations accelerate and scale AI—the watsonx.ai studio for new foundation models, generative AI and machine learning (now available); the watsonx.data fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture (now available); and the watsonx.governance toolkit to help enable AI workflows to be built with responsibility, transparency and explainability (coming later this year).
Posted July 17, 2023
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is adding OpenAI observability as a native capability to Site24x7, its comprehensive cloud-based observability platform, to enable application owners to monitor the utilization of different OpenAI models seamlessly while tracking real-time performance and cost metrics.
Posted July 13, 2023
Zluri, a SaaS operations (SaaSOps) platform, announced the company received $20 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to help organizations manage their SaaS estates and mitigate risks. The Series B funding round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from existing investors including MassMutual Ventures, Endiya Partners, and Kalaari Capital. The company has now raised $32 million in total venture funding since 2020.
Posted July 13, 2023
Traditionally, MongoDB has held its signature event—MongoDB World—in June in New York City. MongoDB usually announces significant releases of their flagship database product at this event. However, this year, the company has transitioned to a global tour of "local" events that start in New York and then proceed to a few dozen regional events across five continents.
Posted July 13, 2023
Now that we're emerging from the pandemic and the dust is starting to settle, organizations are taking a good, hard look at their digital transformation and modernization priorities moving forward. To shed light on the adoption and maturity of trending data architectures and where the industry is headed, Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, partnered with Radiant Advisors to field the latest survey, "Market Study: 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends," sponsored by Cambridge Semantics, Informatica, Kinetica, Teradata, and Vertica.
Posted July 13, 2023
All eyes are on AI this year, with the space heating up as generative AI arrived on the scene with the popularity of ChatGPT technologies, along with new tools for automation and ease of use allowing companies to gain deeper insights into their analytics and better serve their customers.
Posted July 12, 2023
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, is releasing DataGradients, a free, open-source tool for profiling computer vision datasets and distilling critical insights. According to the company, using DataGradients, data scientists can easily analyze the health of their data with one line of code, swiftly identifying problems such as corrupted data, distributional shifts between train and test sets, duplicate annotations, among many others.
Posted July 12, 2023
Landing AI, the data-centric AI company, is unveiling its newfound partnership with Snowflake, bringing AI models and compute closer to data. By extending the power of computer vision to unstructured data located within a Snowflake account, models can now be trained within the Landing AI platform to then be deployed into Snowflake as User-Defined Functions (UDFs), along with pre-trained, industry-standard models offered by Landing AI.
Posted July 11, 2023
Data is the soul of any algorithm, so investing time and resources can reap benefits in the future. Morgan Stanley AVP Supreet Kaur discussed best practices for AI data modeling during Data Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
Tabnine is announcing the expansion of its platform with the addition of Tabnine Chat, an AI code assistant that combines large language models (LLMs) with codebase familiarity, capable of answering queries backed by an organization's codebase.
Posted July 06, 2023