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What Benchmarks Say About Agentic AI’s Coding Potential
Last week’s GTC 2025 show may have been agentic AI’s breakout moment, but the core technology behind it has been quietly improving behind the scenes. That progress is being tracked across a series of coding benchmark Read more…
Apache Pinot Co-Author Joins the Big Data Debrief
You might know LinkedIn as the place where Apache Kafka was created to standardize streaming data. But there are other compelling open source projects to come out of the company, including Apache Pinot, which was designe Read more…
Accelerating Agentic AI Productivity with Enterprise Frameworks
As the AI wave starts to crest, companies are looking for ways to help accelerate their AI projects before the wave washes over them. One of the ways companies can get ahead is by adopting tools and frameworks upon which Read more…
VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases
VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enablin Read more…
Data Warehousing for the (AI) Win
Has the data warehouse lost its luster? Have dashboards fallen out of fashion? They have and they are, according to Eldad Farkash, the CEO and co-founder of Firebolt. What’s driving sales of the humble data warehouse t Read more…
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Solix Hosting Data and AI Conference at UCSD
We’re just a day away from SolixEmpower 2024, a conference that will bring hundreds of Solix cusotmers, leading academic researchers, and business leaders together to discuss the latest developments in cloud data manag Read more…
WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances
GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to Read more…
Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI
With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…
Still Too Much Duct Tape in Data Transformation, dbt Labs’ Handy Says
While real progress has been made in streamlining some aspects of big data analytics workflows, there is still too much duct tape keeping it all together, according to Tristan Handy, the founder and CEO of dbt Labs, whic Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2025 — Algolia today announced the launch of Shopping Guides—an innovative content generation tool that can enhance B2C and B2B eCommerce websites by creating tailored content to guide shoppers and elevate their purchasing experience. Read more…
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2025 — NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for retail shopping assistants, a generative AI reference workflow designed to transform shopping experiences online and in stores. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2025 — Amazon Ads has announced a SQL generator for Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), a new generative AI capability that helps advertisers more quickly and easily develop insights from their AMC signals. Read more…
Jan. 10, 2025 — Cohere has launched the early access program for North, the company’s all-in-one secure AI workspace platform that empowers employees to significantly improve the quality and speed of their work. Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2025 — Ahead of NRF 2025, the retail industry’s largest event, Google Cloud has announced a series of new advancements designed to help retailers transform their businesses and deliver exceptional customer experiences powered by AI. Read more…