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HPE expands self-driving networking strategy as AI moves into production
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad set of networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure enhancements at its Discover customer conference, promising to help enterprises deploy AI agents at scale by implementing self-driving networks and establishing AI factories as the foundation of what it calls the “agentic enterprise.” The combined announcements underscore HPE’s effort to ...
Exclusive: Mindbeam touts dramatic performance improvements in CPU-based AI inference
Two-year-old startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today released an open-source artificial intelligence inference framework designed to make large language models run more efficiently on standard consumer processors, a move the company says could reduce reliance on expensive graphics processing units for some AI workloads. Litespark-Inference is a software library that enables ternary large language models to run ...
Databricks declares the end of pipelines with a unified platform for operational and analytical data
Databricks Inc. is using its Data + AI Summit today in San Francisco to unveil a new data architecture designed to eliminate one of enterprise computing’s oldest bottlenecks: the separation between transactional databases and analytical systems. The company is also introducing a real-time analytics engine that it says removes the need for separate serving infrastructure ...
Mozilla Data Collective seeks to build AI’s data economy around trust
Generative artificial intelligence has a data problem. For years, the typical approach to building gen AI models has been to gather as much data as possible by scraping vast swaths of the internet, training at an enormous scale and dealing with the consequences later. The result has been increasingly powerful technology, but also growing concerns ...
HPE’s Unleash AI takes aim at the ‘AI pilot trap’
For all the excitement artificial intelligence has generated, success is still eluding many companies. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP study found that just 20% of enterprises are achieving at least three-quarters of the revenue and efficiency gains AI promises. Gartner estimates that at least half of generative AI projects were abandoned last year, and other estimates ...
Exclusive: MotherDuck adds agentic data ingestion to its cloud analytics service
MotherDuck Corp., the maker of a cloud-native data warehouse based on the open-source DuckDB analytical engine, is betting that artificial intelligence agents will reshape how data pipelines are built and managed. Today, it unveiled a new capability called Flights that enables users to create and operate data ingestion workflows through natural-language interactions with AI assistants. The ...
Tiger Data launches PostgreSQL extension designed for AI agents
Tiger Data today introduced a managed PostgreSQL database service designed specifically for AI agents, saying conventional database architectures are poorly suited to a future in which software is increasingly built and operated by autonomous agents. The New York-based company, whose business name is Timescale Inc., said the new Ghost service addresses a growing need for ...
Pega expands AI platform with agent orchestration, development tools and new pricing model
Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes while maintaining governance, reliability and cost control. Announced at the company’s PegaWorld conference, the updates span agent orchestration, application development, workforce training and a new pricing model intended to address ...
AWS adds database features and license options aimed at simplifying agent deployment
Amazon Web Services Inc. today enhanced its database services to simplify the process of building and operating agentic artificial intelligence applications while also lowering the barriers to cloud migration for users of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server. The announcements add built-in durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and a new bring-your-own-media option for Amazon RDS for ...
Cisco’s new cloud platform aimed at securing AI infrastructure
Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a sweeping set of products and services designed to help enterprises manage, secure and automate increasingly complex information technology environments as artificial intelligence agents become embedded in corporate infrastructure. The announcements, made at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, are “the most consequential that Cisco has made in many years,” said ...