Kyt Dotson

28 Aug

Cockroach Labs changes its self-hosting license to a single enterprise model – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAICockroach Labs changes its self-hosting license to a single enterprise model, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Cockroach Labs Inc., maker of the distributed and resilient CockroachDB database, said today that it’s changing its licensing to better align with the needs of its customers, startups and scaled-up companies alike. The company said today that it’s consolidating its self-hosted license under a single model that will provide smaller companies access to the tools and capabilities they need and encourage big companies to pay up. With the upcoming introduction of version 24.3 on Nov. 18, the company said, it will retire its free Core offering and introduce a new Enterprise license structure for all self-hosted users. The new structure…

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28 Aug

Nvidia launches AI agent blueprints to allow enterprises to build their own AI apps – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, Nvidia launches AI agent blueprints to allow enterprises to build their own AI apps, SiliconANGLE

The race to build good artificial intelligence apps is a long one and getting off the starting block from zero can be difficult without some kind of an advantage. To provide customers that advantage, Nvidia Corp. announced NIM Agent Blueprints today that it says include everything an enterprise developer needs to build and deploy generative AI applications from start to finish. Nvidia NIM microservices provide developers efficient access to AI models for generative AI workflows such as digital human customer service chatbots, retrieval augmented generation and drug discovery. The creation of production-ready apps using AI models is a complicated process requiring…

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28 Aug

Tabnine introduces inline AI-enabled edits and fixes for faster coding – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE, Tabnine introduces inline AI-enabled edits and fixes for faster coding

Artificial intelligence code completion tool provider Tabnine Ltd. today introduced a new more intuitive way for developers to complete AI-assisted coding tasks directly in the editor with inline actions that work directly on selected snippets of code. The company’s flagship product is an AI-powered code completion tool for professional software developers in an integrated development environment, which helps save them time and energy by providing code suggestions as they type. The new tool will also join Tabnine Chat, which allows users to “talk” to their code using generative AI. “Inline actions brings together the best of chat and code completions into…

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03 Jul

AlphaSense raises $650M at $4B valuation, agrees to acquire rival Tegus in $930M deal – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIagrees to acquire rival Tegus in $930M deal, AlphaSense raises $650M at $4B valuation, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Market intelligence platform AlphaSense Inc. said today it has raised $650 million in funding, bolstering its valuation to $4 billion, and agreed to buy rival firm Tegus Ltd. in a deal valued at $930 million. The funding round follows a $150 million raise in September 2023 that valued the company at $2.5 billion. The current fundraise was co-led by investment firm Viking Global Investors and American merchant bank BDT & MSD Partners, with participation from new investors J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Blue Owl, Alkeon Capital, and existing investors Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG and Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Based in New…

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04 Jun

Atlan raises $105M at $750M valuation for data and AI governance platform – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIAtlan raises $105M at $750M valuation for data and AI governance platform, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Atlan Ple. Ltd., a startup that helps companies tackle sprawling datasets for information and artificial intelligence projects, today announced it has raised $105 million in fresh funding. The Series C round elevated the company’s valuation to $750 million. It was co-led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and Meritech Capital, and joined by existing investors Salesforce Ventures and PeakXV Partners. In total, Atlan has raised more than $206 million. Atlan’s software platform allows companies to organize large datasets into understandable catalogs for analytics purposes in a centralized control plane with a metadata layer. This centralized interface allows analytics experts to quickly discover patterns in the data…

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04 Jun

GaiaNet raises $10M for its decentralized AI agent project – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTGaiaNet raises $10M for its decentralized AI agent project, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project GaiaNet today announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding to provide access to edge nodes where developers can deploy artificial intelligence agents and other generative AI tools. The company’s funding round attracted key advisors bringing additional resources including Generative Ventures’ Lex Sokolin, Republic Capital’s Brian Johnson, 7RIDGE’s Shawn Ng, Kishore Bhatia, EVM Capital, Mantle EcoFund and ByteTrade Lab. GaiaNet operates a distributed AI infrastructure network of individually run “nodes” that allows it to decentralized inference of models for artificial intelligence applications. Instead of using centralized servers for deploying AI models, users set up…

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03 Jun

PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK, SiliconANGLE

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and OpenAI today signed an agreement making the PwC the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing generative AI deeper into the enterprise for customers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Launched in August, ChatGPT Enterprise provides unlimited access to the latest and greatest models that OpenAI has to provide, including GPT-4 and the broadest context windows available. It also delivers the best-in-class security and privacy alongside the ability to customize and prepare models for enterprise-grade solutions by using data sources close to business needs. Through Enterprise access, customers will get their hands on the newly released…

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27 May

Salesforce rolls out Tableau platform data updates and AI infrastructure improvements – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, Salesforce rolls out Tableau platform data updates and AI infrastructure improvements, SiliconANGLE

Salesforce Inc. has rolled out data visualization and AI infrastructure improvements for its Tableau Software platform today that increase the usability of its product for data analysts and expand its scalability for artificial intelligence. The company noted that according to its own research, only 30% of workers use data to make business decisions. Tableau is a visual analytics platform designed to allow people and organizations to make data understandable and solve problems collaboratively using AI and machine learning. On the AI side, Salesforce surveyed more than 1,000 information technology leaders and more than 81% said they felt the need to implement AI in their organizations, but 59% said they didn’t have…

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27 May

Amazon launches Q AI assistant alongside an AI app generator  – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAmazon launches Q AI assistant alongside an AI app generator , Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its Amazon Q generative artificial intelligence assistant generally available for developers and business users that will allow them to debug code and automate business tasks.  Alongside these announcements, the company also unveiled a new Amazon Q Apps feature, in preview, that will allow noncoders to create applications with conversational prompts. AWS unveiled Amazon Q in November in preview for developers and information technology professionals as an AI assistant that could provide help getting started on projects, building applications in AWS, researching best practices, coding new features, troubleshooting networking issues or getting recommendations. Since it resides within the same tools that professionals use, all of this can…

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26 May

Atlassian launches Rovo generative AI-powered assistant – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAtlassian launches Rovo generative AI-powered assistant, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Atlassian Corp. Plc. today launched Rovo, a new generative artificial intelligence knowledge discovery product that extracts data from a company’s internal tools and can help find information stored in them and then act on it. Powered by Atlassian Intelligence, a generative AI offering the company launched a year ago, that brought AI services and models into its products, Rovo helps companies find information lost amid multiple products, learn quickly and act on behalf of employees like a “virtual teammate.” “The first thing Rovo does is it brings together all those third-party SAS tools, as well as your custom-built in-house tools, and lets you put it all into one search index for…

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