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26 May

AI and analytics convergence key theme at Alteryx Inspire – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIPreviewing Alteryx Inspire: Analytics and AI convergence set to headline May event, SiliconANGLE, Victor Dabrinze

When generative artificial intelligence burst into the scene in 2022, experts predicted it would harness data to serve specific use cases, such as analytics and domain-specific insight generation. With solutions companies now fully saddled on the gen AI horse, what are the big data landscape signals on the status quo and future expectations? “[Inspire] is our flagship user conference where the future of analytics and AI converge,” said Paula Hansen (pictured), president and chief revenue officer of Alteryx Inc. “At Alteryx, we’re fortunate to call 49% of the global 2000 our customers. This is the event for all of them to learn the latest and greatest and…

26 May

Unveiling MongoDB.Local: Setting the stage for next-gen AI applications – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTJohn Furrier, SiliconANGLE, Unveiling MongoDB.Local: Setting the stage for next-gen AI applications

At MongoDB Inc.’s flagship developer conference in New York City last year, I spoke with Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria, who offered his take on the burgeoning generative artificial intelligence wave. Ittycheria predicted that as developers began to experiment with new AI tools, including those within MongoDB’s developer data platform, they’d see productivity gains and would be able to build revolutionary new kinds of applications. This week, MongoDB returns with its annual New York City developer conference, MongoDB.local NYC 2024, which kicks off its world tour of events across 23 cities. I sat down with Ittycheria again recently to hear his…

26 May

Databricks delivers enhanced data analytics and intelligence for the energy sector – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIDatabricks delivers enhanced data analytics and intelligence for the energy sector, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

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 artificial intelligence workloads. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, as it’s officially known, is also geared toward confidentiality, enabling energy suppliers to use their most sensitive information without any risks around privacy, the company said. The main idea is that the offering will give energy company leaders a more holistic, real-time view of their operations, helping them…

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…

26 May

Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMike Wheatley, Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time, SiliconANGLE

Big data observability startup Onum said today it’s ready to accelerate its ambitious growth plans after closing on a $28 million early-stage round of funding. The Series A round was led by one of Europe’s top specialist business-to-business software investors, Dawn Capital, and saw participation from Kibo Ventures and Insight Partners. It comes less than a year after the company’s official launch in 2023. The startup, officially known as Signalit Technology S.L., has built what it says is a more efficient and intelligent data observability platform that’s designed to give companies more control over their data, ensuring real-time observation and orchestration,…

26 May

MongoDB launches ‘one-stop shop’ program for enterprises to build generative AI solutions – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, MongoDB launches 'one-stop shop' program for enterprises to build generative AI solutions, SiliconANGLE

Cloud database provider MongoDB Inc. today announced the launch of a program that will help organizations rapidly build and deploy modern applications using generative artificial intelligence technology on an enterprise scale, in partnership with advisory, professional services and end-to-end technology stacks for hosting. The company said the new project, called the MongoDB AI Applications Program, is designed to be a “one-stop shop” solution for enterprises looking to quickly and effectively embed generative AI into applications. Given how quickly the technology has taken the world by storm and how complex it is to build and deploy, it’s becoming necessary to find a way to ease the…

26 May

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

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIPaul Gillin, SiliconANGLE, Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service

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

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

PeerDB raises $3.6M to accelerate PostgreSQL data movement – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMike Wheatley, PeerDB raises $3.6M to accelerate PostgreSQL data movement, SiliconANGLE

Startup PeerDB Inc., which has built a data movement platform specifically for open-source PostgreSQL database management systems, said today it has closed on a seed funding round worth $3.6 million. Leading the investment was 8VC, and it was joined by Y Combinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Flex Capital, Rogue Capital, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and several angel investors. PeerDB says its data movement platform is designed to improve on the capabilities of existing data pipelines that were never designed for Postgres databases. Existing data movement and extract, transform and load or ETL tools often prioritize the sheer number of connectors…

25 May

Anthropic introduces Team subscription tier for Claude 3, iOS app – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAnthropic introduces Team subscription tier for Claude 3, iOS app, Maria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE

Anthropic PBC today debuted a new subscription offering, Claude Team, that will enable companies to use its Claude 3 large language model series more easily. The service is rolling out alongside the company’s first mobile app. The app, which is available at no charge on iOS, works with both the free and paid tiers of Claude 3. Introduced in early March, the Claude 3 model series comprises three LLMs with varying capabilities. The most advanced is called Opus and can answer complex questions twice as accurately as Anthropic’s previous flagship LLM. Moreover, the company claims that Opus managed to slightly outperform…