In late March, when Databricks Inc. launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model, it marked another milestone in a strategy based on three big bets when the firm started in 2013. “The first was that organizations were going to be moving to the cloud, second was that successful ones were going to be using open ...

Over the course of a few days in April, concerning events served as a reminder that implementing basic security practices, such as Dell Data Protection, has become ever more important. Data breaches at Home Depot, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Indian audio company boAt generated headlines as reports filtered out on the potential ...

Chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are moving rapidly to supply processors for the edge computing market. The company announced two new chip lineups this week designed to power edge computing devices such as subsystems in smart automobiles. The latest AMD processors have circuits built for specific tasks, including running artificial intelligence models. AMD’s ...

The news from Google LLC at its annual Google Cloud Next conference this week centered around its Distributed Cloud and new features for generative artificial intelligence and expanded cross-networking. Among the enhancements announced in Las Vegas during the event was an ability to train AI models on data from cloud or on-premises repositories in a ...

During an era of unprecedented innovation in cloud computing, many companies are expanding their industry partnerships. Persistent Systems Ltd.’s active partnership with Google Cloud shifted into a new gear last year when the two companies launched a suite of cloud-powered generative AI solutions. This chapter in the two companies’ joint initiatives leveraged Google Cloud’s generative AI ...

The investment strategy for the Madrona Venture Group is described by the maxim “day one for the long run.” This has been the firm’s guiding principle in its funding for artificial intelligence startups and it has shaped its view of intelligent applications as well. “At Madrona, we’ve been investing in AI startups in one way, ...

For the big-data firm Alteryx Inc., the past year has been all about capitalizing on the artificial intelligence wave. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene in December 2022, some tech leaders expressed a belief that the future of generative AI would swiftly evolve to specific use cases that leveraged proprietary data in vertical industries. ...

Databricks Inc. has emerged as platform tailored for the integration of data-driven artificial intelligence within a unified stack. The 11-year-old company has built its reputation by redefining the separation of storage from compute, a process that has positioned it to become a valuable resource for enterprises seeking to leverage generative AI. In Databricks’ version of ...

The cloud-native community believes that the Kubernetes software container orchestration tool is ideally positioned to be the engine room for artificial intelligence. Kubernetes’ ability to deploy large-scale enterprise applications has created an opportunity for it to also become the standard for deploying AI models in the enterprise. Some industry observers believe this will be a ...

When Docker Inc. introduced its new Docker Build Cloud service in January, the company made it clear that the offering would allow developers to save significant time in turning raw code files into a functioning application. This acceleration of the build process by offloading computations from a developer’s machine to the cloud is already seeing ...