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26 May

Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service – SiliconANGLE

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Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage. A lakehouse is a new type of data architecture that combines the flexibility of data lakes with the performance of data warehouses. Iceberg is an open-source data table format designed for data warehouses and data lakes that supports SQL tables on large amounts of storage. Iceberg’s schema evolution feature allows the data structure of tables to change over time. It keeps…

25 May

Data Machina #245

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The GenAI RAG House Revisited. Since Facebook AI introduced RAG three years ago, RAG systems have evolved from Naive to Advanced, and then to Modular RAG. But Modular RAG also added more complexity, components, interfaces, etc. to the LLMOps pipeline. Many naive RAG and advanced RAG projects never made it to prod. I know many companies that have spent a lot effort and money in building enterprise RAG apps, only to realise they couldn’t produce accurate, reliable results at a manageable cost. Building a RAG system that is scalable, cost-efficient, accurate, and modular requires deep expertise. Here are a few…

25 May

AI and Open Source in 2023

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We are slowly but steadily approaching the end of 2023. I thought this was a good time to write a brief recap of the major developments in the AI research, industry, and open-source space that happened in 2023. Of course, this article is only a glimpse of the most relevant topics that are on the top of my mind. I recommend checking out the monthly Research Highlights and Ahead of AI #4-12 issues in the Archive for additional coverage.This year, we have yet to see any fundamentally new technology or methodology on the AI product side. Rather, this year was largely…

25 May

Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones

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By Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor, and Seth LazarPreventing harms from AI is important. The AI safety community calls this the alignment problem. The vast majority of development effort to date has been on technical methods that modify models themselves. We’ll call this model alignment, as opposed to sociotechnical ways to mitigate harm.The main model alignment technique today is Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), which has proven essential to the commercial success of chatbots. But RLHF has come to be seen as a catch-all solution to the dizzying variety of harms from language models. Consequently, there is much hand-wringing about…

25 May

5 Transformative Ways AI is Driving the Open Finance Revolution

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The finance sector has often struggled in the 21st Century to fully embrace digital transformation. However, the ongoing generative AI boom has all the necessary components to deliver an Open Finance revolution that can bring widespread modernization to industry processes. Although it's been relatively slow in the uptake of digital transformation, the impressive growth of Open Banking has shown that there's plenty of room for innovation throughout finance. While Open Banking refers to the exchange of services and data across financial institutions, Open Finance represents the next step in digital transformation and empowers trusted third parties to utilize customer data…

25 May

Lithuania’s Unmanned Defense Systems secures €3.2M to advance AI-based swarm drones

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Lithuanian advanced swarm detection company Unmanned Defense Systems (UDS) today announced it has raised €3.2M to scale battlefield-tested UAVs and advance AI-based swarm integrations with contemporary battlefield management systems. UDS has also designed its own fleet of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), ranging from reconnaissance drones Partisan to loitering munition and FPV drones. The company has already won multiple defence procurement tenders and supplies its solutions to the Lithuanian and Ukrainian armed forces, other EU members, and NATO allies. A strong team bringing money and expertise Joining the leadership are Vytenis Buzas, one of the creators of the first Lithuanian satellite…

25 May

CoreWeave raises $1.1B at $19B valuation to grow its GPU cloud – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTCoreWeave raises $1.1B at $19B valuation to grow its GPU cloud, Maria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE

CoreWeave Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized for graphics card workloads, today announced that it has closed a $1.1 billion funding round. The Series C raise reportedly values the company at $19 billion. That’s up from the $7 billion it was worth following a $642 million secondary sale in December. Fidelity Management, which led that deal, also joined in the funding round CoreWeave announced today along with Coatue, Lykos Global Management, Altimeter Capital and Magnetar. CoreWeave operates a public cloud that provides access to about a dozen different Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units. It targets two main use…

25 May

Google Gemini Cheat Sheet (Formerly Google Bard): What Is Google Gemini, and How Does It Work?)

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Gemini is Google’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, including a chatbot that generates responses to user-provided natural language prompts. In response to a prompt, Gemini can pull information from the internet and present a response. The large language model behind Gemini delivers the response in natural language — in contrast to a standard Google search, where a result consists of a snippet of information or a list of links. Google announced Gemini (as Bard) in February 2023 after OpenAI and Microsoft both garnered attention for AI chatbot systems. And in May 2023, AI advancements featured prominently in Google’s I/O event. On Feb.…

25 May

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT

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Last week OpenAI revealed a new conversational interface for ChatGPT with an expressive, synthetic voice strikingly similar to that of the AI assistant played by Scarlett Johansson in the sci-fi movie Her—only to suddenly disable the new voice over the weekend.On Monday, Johansson issued a statement claiming to have forced that reversal, after her lawyers demanded OpenAI clarify how the new voice was created.Johansson’s statement, relayed to WIRED by her publicist, claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked her last September to provide ChatGPT’s new voice but that she declined. She describes being astounded to see the company demo a…

25 May

Introducing the Databricks AI Fund

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We launched Databricks Ventures in December 2021 as our strategic investment arm for funding innovative startups across the data, analytics and AI landscape — companies that shared our view on the importance of open platforms and ecosystems. Since then, via the inaugural Lakehouse Fund, we’ve invested in more than 25 amazing companies that are building on or extending the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The result has been a stronger ecosystem, with our portfolio companies delivering best-in-class product experiences for our joint customers.Today, we’re excited to announce the Databricks AI Fund, the second fund at Databricks Ventures. Just as software ate…