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This post is different from past essays, which were more future-oriented. This one is grounded in today’s challenges in scaling AI. Read on to learn about the recurring challenges I’ve heard. I am also organizing the Enterprise Generative AI Forum which is designed for both technical and non-technical folks and will cover topics like product, pricing, positioning, and more.It has been almost one year since ChatGPT was released. In the initial six months, the community grappled with understanding the capabilities of foundation or generative AI models. The number of in-person AI events happening in Bay Area grew from just 10…

Earlier this year, Madelyn Hoying, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, and Wing Lam (Nicole) Chan, an MIT senior in aeronautics and astronautics, were part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), the largest and longest-running Mars analog facility in the world. Their six-person crew completed a two-week simulation under the name Project MADMEN (Martian Analysis and Detection of Microbial Environments) — an analog of potential Martian search-for-life missions. The mission evolved from Hoying’s NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (NASA RASC-AL) challenge submission, Project ALIEN, during her time as an undergraduate student…

Deephaven Community Core version 0.33.0 is now out. We're excited about it and hope you will be too after reading the release notes! Let's take a closer look at what it includes.Read Parquet from AWS S3​Deephaven can now read single Parquet files from AWS S3. The code block below fetches data from a public S3 bucket. This new experimental feature is under active development, so stay tuned for future developments as we expand on it.from deephaven import parquetfrom deephaven.experimental import s3from datetime import timedeltadrivestats = parquet.read( "s3://drivestats-parquet/drivestats/year=2023/month=02/2023-02-1.parquet", special_instructions=s3.S3Instructions( "us-west-004", endpoint_override="https://s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com", anonymous_access=True, read_ahead_count=8, fragment_size=65536, read_timeout=timedelta(seconds=10), ),)Rollup table weighted average​Weighted average aggregations…

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> Modern cars are transforming rapidly from vehicles that bring a person from point A to point B with decent comfort, to computers on wheels. As a result, modern and next-generation vehicles—battery electric vehicles (BEVs), hybrid/plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV/PHEV), software defined vehicles (SDVs), or vehicles with full self-drive (FSD)—require components that are akin to those used in computers. This not only includes high-performance application processors, but also enough memory, high-capacity storage and sophisticated I/O. Micron’s 4150AT at a glance Announced back in April, Micron’s 4150AT SSD is a PCIe Gen4…

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…

Google is revamping its search engine with the help of AI. The company announced AI Overviews not long ago. This new feature displays an AI reply at the top of the Google Search results. Now, Google announced the start of showing ads as part of AI Overviews on Google Search. The addition is available for searchers in the United States at the time, but will expand to more regions and countries in the future. The advertisement shows up as sponsored blocks in the reply of the AI. This section can be distinguished better from the AI's content than regular ads…

Foundation models are the driving force behind the generative AI revolution. For most enterprises, now and in the coming years, acquiring foundation models from external providers will be the norm, rather than training their own from scratch. These models serve as critical elements in the larger AI framework, yet it’s important to recognize that not every foundation model is of the same caliber. In our previous global report, we introduced an evaluation framework on the capabilities that technology architecture and delivery practitioners should focus on, spanning technology, business, and ecosystem. Among these capabilities, model adaptation towards specific business needs and…