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Deloitte’s new engineering practice to help enterprises accelerate product development
Technology consultancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. has launched a new engineering practice it says will help clients scale up their own software engineering and product innovation efforts. Announced today, Deloitte Engineering is focused on helping clients get ahead of the curve with transformational new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, cloud-native applications, Web3 and ...
Wing Cloud raises $20M to build a unified programming language that tames cloud complexity
Cloud-native programming language startup Wing Cloud Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with a hefty $20 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by an impressive list of venture capital firms, including Battery Ventures, Grove Ventures and StageOne Ventures. Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners and Operator Partners also participated in the round, as ...
DataStax adds vector search to boost support for generative AI workloads
Database startup DataStax Inc. has announced general availability of its new vector search capability for every version of Astra DB, a popular database-as-a-service offering that’s built atop the open-source Apache Cassandra product. Announced today, the new capability makes Astra DB much more suitable for hosting data that’s used to train artificial intelligence models, including generative ...
MongoDB brings its cloud-hosted database Atlas to public sector organizations
Database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new, government-focused edition of its cloud database MongoDB Atlas, one of the first offerings to emerge from its recently announced MongoDB Atlas for Industries initiative. MongoDB Atlas for Government is a secure and compliant version of the company’s flagship cloud database that comes with FedRAMP Moderate authorization, meaning ...
Splunk launches a generative AI assistant to tame observability data
Big-data firm Splunk Inc. today announced a collection of artificial intelligence-based offerings under the new “Splunk AI” banner, including a new generative AI assistant that helps users interact with their underlying application observability data more easily. Announced on day two of Splunk’s .conf23 event in Las Vegas, Splunk AI is a suite of offerings that aims to ...
Spectro Cloud brings secure, flexible Kubernetes management to government users
Kubernetes management startup Spectro Cloud Inc. today debuted a new version of its platform, aiming to meet the particular requirements of government, public sector organizations and other users where security and compliance are of paramount importance. Spectro Cloud is the creator of Palette, a complete and integrated platform that allows organizations to manage the entire ...
MLCommons announces MedPerf, a new benchmark for validating medical AI models
The Medical Working Group of the open machine learning consortium MLCommons today announced the availability of a new and open benchmarking platform called MedPerf. MedPerf is a big deal, the group says, as it enables medical-focused artificial intelligence models to be validated on diverse, real-world healthcare data without revealing that information. It’s hoped that the ...
Azure Active Directory rebrands to Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Corp. today announced that its long-lived and much-loved identity and access management service Azure Active Directory is being rebranded, and will henceforth be known as Microsoft Entra ID. The rebrand is part of Microsoft’s effort to simplify its suite of identity and access tools, with Entra ID sitting alongside products such as Entra Permissions ...
AP partners with OpenAI to explore news industry use cases for generative AI
The Associated Press is partnering with ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP to explore the possible applications of generative artificial intelligence in the news industry. Under the deal revealed today, AP will license a part of its enormous archive of historical news stories to OpenAI, Axios reported. Meanwhile, AP will gain access to OpenAI’s large language model technology, ...
AI startup Nomic raises $17M to build its open-source alternative to GPT-4
Artificial intelligence startup Nomic AI said today it has closed on a $17 million early-stage funding round. The Series A investment, which values Nomic at around $100 million, was led by Coatue and saw participation from Contrary Capital, Betaworks Ventures, SV Angel, Story Ventures and Factorial Capital, plus a host of angel investors. New York-based ...
