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Big-data company Databricks Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a dedicated data intelligence platform for the energy industry, designed to enable customers in the energy sector to harness enormous streams of data and use them for business insights and to feed generative …
AI book publishing platform Spines raises $6.5M to disrupt centuries-old industry
Israeli startup Spines is looking to disrupt the centuries-old publishing industry after closing on a $6.5 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Aleph and saw participation from existing investors M-Fund, LionTree LLC and Dan Senor, co-author of the …
Google Cloud targets general-purpose and specialized workloads with new virtual machine families
Google Cloud is looking to address the very specific requirements of its customers with a series of updates to its workload-optimized compute infrastructure portfolio. The new virtual machine offerings, announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24, span a wide range of use cases, …
Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer cloud infrastructure gets new GPUs, TPUs, optimized storage and more
Google Cloud is revamping its AI Hypercomputer architecture with significant enhancements across the board to support rising demand for generative artificial intelligence applications that are becoming increasingly pervasive in enterprise workloads. At Google Cloud Next ’24 today, the company announced updates to …
With its partners, Google Cloud is building a one-stop shop for generative AI development
Building the next generation of generative artificial intelligence is not an easy thing, and no single cloud provider is able to provide all of the hardware, software, systems, frameworks and expertise required to support its development. Fortunately, that isn’t necessary, as Google …
Google Cloud showcases how major customers are innovating with its generative AI services
Google Cloud took the opportunity at its annual developer conference Next ‘24 today to showcase how various major customers are taking advantage of its advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. Not surprisingly in this day and age, it was especially keen to show off its …
Intel and Altera unveil new chips and FPGAs to enhance AI at the network edge
Intel Corp. and its subsidiary Altera today unveiled a range of new processors and field-programmable gate arrays or FPGAs designed to extend artificial intelligence capabilities to the network edge. The new offerings, said to be broadly available now, include a number of …
Boosted by AI, global PC market bounces back after two years of declining sales
The personal computer industry has returned to growth after more than two years in the doldrums, according to the latest figures released by International Data Corp. today. In its latest market tracker, the research firm said PC shipments hit 59.8 million units …
DataStax acquires Langflow for its low-code AI app development tools
DataStax Inc. has taken another big step forward in its bid to become the database of choice for generative artificial intelligence developers, revealing today that it’s buying a startup called Logspace, creator of Langflow, a popular open-source visual framework for building retrieval-augmented …
Automated data transformation startup Coalesce closes on $50M funding round
Data transformation startup Coalesce Automation Inc. has revealed how it is planning to scale its business, unveiling an ambitious roadmap to coincide with its biggest funding round yet. The company said today it has raised $50 million via a Series B funding …