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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 ...
OpenAI seeks diverse group of domain experts to help develop safer, more robust AI models
Artificial intelligence industry leader OpenAI LP is calling for a diverse group of experts to join its newly established Red Teaming Network, in order to evaluate and stress test its AI models. The initiative, announced today, aims to identify potential risks and improve the safety of AI applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. Red teaming ...
Automation Anywhere doubles down on generative AI to power business automation
Automation Anywhere Inc., the robotic process automation software provider, today announced an expanded portfolio of artificial intelligence capabilities. Unveiled at the company’s Imagine 2023 event, the new capabilities include a generative AI Autopilot that enables automation across every team, system and business process. The company said today’s updates are all about accelerating business productivity, and will ...
Intel makes progress on advanced chip manufacturing process as it strives for relevance in AI
Hosting its third annual Intel Innovation event today, Intel Corp. took the opportunity to announce an array of new silicon platforms that it says will support artificial intelligence in every location, making it accessible across client devices, the edge and the cloud. Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger (pictured) took to the stage, and during his ...
Red Hat rebrands OpenStack Platform for building and managing private clouds
Red Hat Inc. said today it’s rebranding the Red Hat OpenStack Platform, which will now be known as Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. The rebrand follows a years-long effort by the company, owned by IBM Corp., to integrate Red Hat OpenStack Platform more tightly with Red Hat OpenShift. The goal is to help service ...
Oracle taps generative AI to improve customer services and boost marketing and sales
Oracle Corp. is jumping on the generative artificial intelligence train with the addition of dozens of new capabilities designed to help organizations boost productivity in areas such as customer service, marketing and sales. The new generative AI capabilities in the Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience platform were announced today at Oracle’s CloudWorld event in Las ...
Tabular, the vendor-neutral data store based on Apache Iceberg, raises $26M in funding
Startup Tabular Technologies Inc., creator of an independent data platform based on the open-source Apache Iceberg data lake software, said today it has closed on a $26 million round of funding. Today’s round was led by Altimeter Capital, and saw participation from the previous lead investor of Tabular’s earlier round, Andreessen Horowitz, as well as ...
Enterprise-focused generative AI startup Writer raises $100M
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. has closed on a surprisingly large $100 million early-stage round of funding that values it at $500 million, Bloomberg reported. Today’s Series B round was led by Iconiq Growth and saw participation from others, such as WndrCo, Balderton Capital, Insight Partners, which led the Series A round, and Aspect ...
Anyscale launches Endpoints, a more cost-effective platform for fine-tuning generative AI models
Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, is launching a new service called Anyscale Endpoints that it says will help developers integrate fast, cost-effective and scalable large language models into their applications. The service was announced today at the 2023 Ray Summit, the project’s annual user conference, which is targeting generative artificial ...
Oracle debuts better workforce management and financial planning tools for healthcare providers
Database software giant Oracle Corp. said today it’s pushing even further into the healthcare industry, adding new workforce management capabilities to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management offering. The new tools will enable healthcare providers to adapt to the dynamic labor market in the industry, better organize their workforces to meet patient demand, and ...