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28 Oct

Fixify nabs $25M for its AI-supported help desk service – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTFixify nabs $25M for its AI-supported help desk service, Maria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE

Fixify Inc., a startup helping companies process employees’ technical support requests more efficiently, today announced that it has raised $25 million in funding. Costanoa Ventures, Decibel Partners and Paladin Capital Group jointly led the Series A investment. Scale Venture Partners chipped in as well. Fixify’s total outside capital now stands at $32 million. Assembling a help desk team that can field technical support questions from a company’s employees is a costly and time-consuming endeavor. Arlington-based Fixify offers a managed help desk service that spares organizations the hassle. Companies can reroute their workers’ support requests to the startup’s support professionals, who use artificial intelligence…

28 Oct

StarTree eyes observability market with Apache Pinot-based real-time engine – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIPaul Gillin, SiliconANGLE, StarTree eyes observability market with Apache Pinot-based real-time engine

StarTree Inc., a company that’s commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is setting its sights on the market for observability tools, saying it’s a ripe target for disruption. Last week the company demonstrated how its StarTree Cloud, a managed Pinot service, can now be used as a time-series database compatible with the open-source Prometheus monitoring and alerting toolkit to drive real-time observability dashboards using the open-source Grafana visualization engine. StarTree said it can address the query and storage components of the observability stack at a much lower cost by using open-source technology. Observability is a discipline and…

28 Oct

Boost sustainability with AI-driven process intelligence – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAdaptive AI for enterprise success: Celonis addresses flexibility, scalability and sustainability, SiliconANGLE, Victoria Gayton

The ever-evolving landscape of enterprise technology is increasingly focused on integrating AI-driven process intelligence across industries. Today, businesses seek not only operational efficiency, but also innovation in handling complex systems such as supply chains and customer relationships. As organizations look to gain a competitive edge, the ability to streamline processes and leverage advanced technologies has become paramount. “We always say there’s no AI without AI, especially on the enterprise side,” said Alex Rinke (pictured), co-founder and co-chief executive officer at Celonis SE. “What’s the difference between AI and enterprise AI? Each enterprise is different, [with] proprietary processes, customer relationships and vendor…

28 Oct

Law enforcement tech startup Flock Safety uses AI to shut down muscle car sideshows – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTLaw enforcement tech startup Flock Safety uses AI to shut down muscle car sideshows, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Community safety technology startup Flock Group Inc., better known as Flock Safety, says it’s pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to detect illegal sideshows – those dangerous, impromptu events, usually at night, where drivers of muscle cars take turns doing donuts in intersections for cheering crowds. The startup says it has integrated AI and machine learning with its existing Raven audio detection system to provide law enforcement agencies with real-time alerts so they can respond to sideshows as soon as they begin. Sideshows are a growing phenomenon. Although they have been going on for years, their popularity began to increase dramatically…

28 Oct

Eon raises $127M to simplify access to cloud data backups – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIEon raises $127M to simplify access to cloud data backups, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Cloud data backup specialist Eon exited stealth mode today, saying the time is right for it to reveal its plans to disrupt the data protection market. It’s extremely confident in its ability to do that, after raising an impressive $127 million since its founding in January. The money comes from not one funding round, but three, at a reported $750 million valuation. It began with a $20 million seed round shortly after the company was formed that was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Vine Ventures, Meron Capital and Eight Roads. It followed that with a $30 million Series A…

28 Oct

Zencoder launches to bring AI coding agents to software development – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTKyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE, Zencoder launches to bring AI coding agents to software development

Zencoder, an artificial intelligence startup focused on software development, today announced the launch of a suite of products developed using generative AI agents that are designed to help software developers work faster and build better applications. Founded in 2023 by Chief Executive Andrew Filev, Zencoder offers AI agents that integrate into development workflows to provide intelligent code generation, code repair, test generation, optimization and documentation. Filev told SiliconANGLE in an interview that Zencoder differentiates itself from other AI-powered coding assistants on the market by bringing AI agents to developers. The AI agents are capable of multistep coding capabilities and self-repair, which…

28 Oct

DataPelago raises $47M to optimize hardware for analytical workloads – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIDataPelago raises $47M to optimize hardware for analytical workloads, Paul Gillin, SiliconANGLE

DataPelago Inc. today unveiled what it calls a “universal data processing engine” that powers high-speed computing at massive scale by making better use of an organization’s underlying infrastructure. The three-year-old startup also announced $47 million in new funding. The company’s cloud-based software framework is independent of the operating system and leverages all available CPU, graphics processing units, floating point units and data processing units to apply to generative artificial intelligence and “data lakehouse” analytics across large volumes of unstructured data. The engine is based on two intelligent layers called the DataVM and the DataOS. Together they process data in the…

28 Oct

Agentic AI transforms automation, workflows and ROI – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTAI Implementation: Optimizing automation for maximum ROI, Ryan Stevens, SiliconANGLE

The landscape of enterprise AI is increasingly focused on using data more effectively, particularly by integrating technologies such as automation and agentic AI. Companies large and small are looking to streamline processes and enhance efficiency through intelligent automation, which addresses issues such as manual data entry and process bottlenecks. Celonis’ Divya Krishnan talks to theCUBE about agentic AI, process optimization and the importance of real-time data sharing among stakeholders. “Our strategy is really to build a platform to give the tools to not only our customers, but also our partners to enable them to actually create the solution and go…

28 Oct

Meta debuts slimmed-down Llama models for low-powered devices – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTMeta debuts slimmed-down Llama models for low-powered devices, Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE

Meta Platforms Inc. is striving to make its popular open-source large language models more accessible with the release of “quantized” versions of the Llama 3.2 1B and Llama 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices. The Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models were announced at Meta’s Connect 2024 event last month. They’re the company’s smallest LLMs so far, designed to address the demand to run generative artificial intelligence on-device and in edge deployments. Now it’s releasing quantized, or lightweight, versions of those models, which come with a reduced memory footprint and support faster on-device inference, with greater accuracy, the…

28 Oct

With InsightEngine, Vast Data aims to be the data operating system for AI – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE, Vast Data aims to be the data operating system for AI, With InsightEngine

Data storage company Vast Data Inc. is putting the infrastructure in place for enterprises that want to use data retrieval to enhance the capabilities of their artificial intelligence systems. Today it announced the launch of Vast InsightEngine with Nvidia, set to enter general availability early next year. It will allow organizations to ingest, process and retrieve all of their enterprise data, including files, objects, tables and data streams, securely and in real time, the company said. The announcement came as Vast Data revealed a new initiative called Cosmos, which aims to transform how enterprises build and advance AI. It’s a…