Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of November 22; Updates from IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of November 22, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.
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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of November 22, 2024
Anomalo Can Now ID Biz-Specific Data Quality Issues in Unstructured Data for AI
This announcement comes as Anomalo sees record enterprise demand for its data quality product as Generative AI surges. In the last year, Anomalo has more than doubled its customers in the Fortune 500. Anomalo has also deepened its partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and Google and received the prestigious Emerging Partner of the Year award from Databricks who also made a strategic investment in the company.
BrightAI Raises $15 Million in Seed Funding
Led by CEO and Founder Alex Hawkinson, BrightAI is an infrastructure AI company that provides Stateful OS, a platform that offers blue-collar industries to move from reactive to proactive decision-making. It is purpose-built to serve industries including critical services, water, energy, transportation, construction, power, pest control, and manufacturing.
Denodo Boasts Advanced AI Features and Enhanced Lakehouse Performance with New Update
Denodo Platform 9 brought intelligent data delivery to data management, with AI-driven support for natural-language queries and support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), so organizations can gain trusted, insightful results from their generative AI (GenAI) applications.
Graphwise Adds ‘Talk-to-Your-Graph’ Capability to GraphDB 10.8
This lets non-technical users derive real-time insights and retrieve and explore complex, multi-faceted data using natural language. GraphDB 10.8 also enables the deployment of seamless, high-availability clusters across multiple regions, ensuring zero downtime and data consistency without compromising performance.
Hitachi Vantara Announces Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX
The Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services first became available in July 2024, including a new AI Discovery Service designed to help customers identify the most valuable AI use cases, assess their data readiness, determine ROI, and create a strategic roadmap for successful AI implementation.
Microsoft Makes Pitch on Autonomous AI Agents at Ignite 2024
AI developers are increasingly pitching the next wave of generative AI chatbots as AI “agents” that can do more useful things on people’s behalf. But the cost of building and running AI tools is so high that more investors are questioning whether the technology’s promise is overblown.
Model N Unveils New GenAI and Data Intelligence Tools
Integrating GenAI and intelligent data into the company’s Channel Data Management, Formulary Compliance, and Provider Management solutions showcases Model N’s strong commitment to delivering continuous innovation and excellence to the world’s most innovative brands in life sciences and high tech.
NVIDIA Launches cuPyNumeric CUDA-X Library
At SC24 this week, NVIDIA announced the release of cuPyNumeric, an NVIDIA CUDA-X library that enables over 5 million developers to seamlessly scale to powerful computing clusters without modifying their Python code. NVIDIA also revealed significant updates to the NVIDIA CUDA-Q development platform, which empowers quantum researchers to simulate quantum devices at a scale previously thought computationally impossible.
Red Hat Set to Acquire Neural Magic
Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to customer-specific use cases and data, anywhere and everywhere across the hybrid cloud.
Salesforce Unveils AI Agent Lifecycle Management Tooling
This new toolchain — the first of its kind in the industry — will enable teams to test, deploy, and monitor AI agents with Agentforce at scale, with confidence, enabling every enterprise to become “agent-first.”
Securiti Partners with HPE on Enterprise AI
It is powered by a unique knowledge graph that maintains granular contextual insights about data and AI systems and supports NVIDIA NIM microservices for optimized inference performance. Gencore AI provides robust controls throughout the AI system to align with corporate policies and entitlements, safeguard against malicious attacks, protect sensitive data and provide full provenance of the AI system.
SentinelOne Introduces AI Security Posture Management
More and more organizations are deploying generative AI (GenAI) models on public clouds like AWS due to their on-demand scalability, specialized infrastructure like high-performance GPUs and TPUs, and AI management platforms like Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI.
Snowflake and Anthropic Partner to Enable Claude Models on the AI Data Cloud
As a part of the multi-year partnership, Snowflake has also committed to using Claude as one of the key models powering its agentic AI offerings. Snowflake’s enterprise AI products and chatbots will come optimized for Claude out-of-the-box, so users can reduce time-to-market and begin seeing value with industry-leading accuracy and scalability. Furthermore, Snowflake will deploy Claude for internal use cases, enabling Snowflake employees to immediately create high-quality agentic workflows.
SS&C Says Most Financial Services Firms Want to See AI Benefits in 2025
Conducted at the 2024 SS&C Deliver conference, the survey of 213 industry leaders highlights how AI adoption is growing rapidly within specific departments. However, only a fraction of firms have achieved enterprise-wide integration to drive substantial, consistent value.
Statsig Unveils New Azure AI Integration
Statsig’s Azure AI SDK simplifies the implementation of features like completions and embeddings in server applications, by providing a layer of abstraction from direct Azure AI API calls and giving developers a simplified framework for implementing Azure AI models. This unlocks a very high level of flexibility for engineering teams.
Ubitium Unveils Universal RISC-V Processor for AI
Alongside this, Ubitium is announcing a $3.7 million in seed funding round, co-led by Runa Capital, Inflection, and KBC Focus Fund. The investment will be used to develop the first prototypes and prepare initial development kits for customers, with the first chips planned for 2026.
Expert Insights Section
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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI
The team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus to bring you a discussion from experts from Forrester Research, Impetus, and Deluxe Corporation that will help you take a dive deep into the real-world success stories of enterprises that are leading the charge with GenAI while discussing current and future trends.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring John K. Thompson: Preparing for the AI Agent Revolution
They discuss how AI agents are poised to overtake generative AI as the next major technological advancement, with predictions that organizations will soon have more AI agents than employees. The conversation covers different types of AI agents, the challenges of governance and regulation, and the importance of AI literacy among executives and employees.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts SoftwareOne for exclusive Spotlight on Doing More with AI: Microsoft 365 Copilot in Action
Delve deeper into Microsoft 365 Copilot with this hands-on look at how it all works. Discover new levels of productivity as you explore the innovative ways Copilot can streamline your workflows, enhance your daily tasks, and ensure your data remains protected. We’ll also introduce you to SoftwareOne’s expert services, designed to support you on your AI journey and help you leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
NEW on Solutions Review Thought Leaders by John Santaferraro: How to Spot an AI Imposter
Billions have been invested, 25 billion in the first quarter of 2024 alone; and there will be a busting of the bubble. We’ve seen it happen once. It will happen again, and this time it’s going to be a nuclear explosion. There will be big losses. In the face of all the uncertainty and confusion, one thing is clear: The potential hidden in AI is greater than the risk. AI is a game changer.
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