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MongoDB revs up its vector search feature to power faster and more accurate generative AI apps
Cloud database provider MongoDB Inc. today announced a slew of updates to its platform that are designed to help software developers build applications that can harness the power of generative artificial intelligence. Among other improvements, it announced new Vector Search functionality that improves the way it filters and aggregates unstructured data, making it easier for ...
SAP debuts Joule, a generative AI copilot for intelligent insights across its entire software portfolio
Enterprise software giant SAP SE is building on this year’s launch of its Business AI tools with the availability of a new generative artificial intelligence copilot that it says will be embedded throughout its cloud enterprise portfolio. It’s called Joule, and it will provide proactive and contextualized insights from across its entire suite of cloud ...
Dell expands APEX portfolio to extend Microsoft Azure Cloud to the edge
Dell Technologies Inc. said today that it’s expanding its APEX portfolio with a new family of products for on-premises deployments of Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Cloud. It’s the first offering from Dell’s recently announced Dell APEX Cloud Platform. It provides a range of infrastructure offerings for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that customers ...
SRI International spins out Synfini, an AI-powered drug discovery platform provider
Silicon Valley-based nonprofit scientific research institute SRI International said today it’s spinning out its patented Synfini drug discovery platform as an independent startup named Synfini Inc. Synfini combines technologies that include physical and virtual chemistry, neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, a vast proprietary chemistry dataset and robotic automation to develop novel molecular compounds as promising drug candidates. ...
IBM updates tools to move next-gen AI development onto the mainframe
IBM Corp. said today it’s building on the recent launch of generative artificial intelligence coding capabilities for mainframe developers by launching a suite of new offerings that will make it easier to run AI on their legacy data center hardware. The updates to IBM Z are designed to help customers improve business outcomes by implementing ...
Canonical steps up its support for machine learning development with Charmed MLFlow
Canonical Ltd. is pushing further into the machine learning operations arena with the launch of its Charmed MLFlow platform in general availability today. Charmed MLFlow is Canonical’s distribution of the popular open-source MLFlow platform, which is used to manage the end-to-end machine learning model lifecycle. It benefits from various integrations with Canonical’s software, simpler deployment ...
Time-series database Timescale adds vector search for AI
Timescale Inc., the creator of a cloud time-series database that’s based on PostgreSQL, is looking to cater to artificial intelligence developers with the launch of its latest vector capabilities. Announced today, Timescale Vector sits atop the company’s cloud-based PostgreSQL platform, enabling the management of vector embeddings alongside the relational, time-series, analytics and event-based data that ...
Huawei subsidiary ships advanced surveillance camera chips in another sign it’s skirting US sanctions
A subsidiary of China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is reportedly shipping homegrown chips with advanced capabilities for surveillance cameras, in yet another sign that it’s managing to get around U.S. export controls. Huawei’s HiSilicon chip design business began shipping its newest chips to surveillance camera manufacturers in both China and abroad earlier this year, Reuters ...
Intel Trust Authority boosts confidential computing with remote verification of trust in any environment
Intel Corp. said today it has reached a key milestone in its mission to enable “confidential computing” with the general availability of Intel Trust Authority, a new service that attests to the validity of its Trusted Execution Environments. Intel’s TEEs sit at the heart of its confidential computing strategy. Confidential computing is the term used ...
Lenovo expands infrastructure-as-a-service model to edge AI platforms
Lenovo Group Ltd. today is expanding its TruScale infrastructure-as-a-service model to its portfolio of specialized “edge AI” servers, enabling businesses of all sizes to deploy artificial intelligence applications at the network edge. The expansion of its pay-as-you-go model to edge AI comes as Lenovo announced its most powerful such server yet. The ThinkEdge SE455 V3 is ...
