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IBM releases new Granite foundation models under ‘permissive’ Apache license
Furthering its drive to build a distinctive position in enterprise artificial intelligence, IBM Corp. today is rolling out a series of new language models and tools to ensure their responsible use. The company is also unveiling a new generation of its watsonx Code Assistant for application development and modernization. All of these new capabilities are ...
Big-data dust-up: Why two AI giants are at war over who’s more open
The battle for supremacy in the emerging market for platforms that best support the coming boom in artificial intelligence development may ultimately come down to a geeky storage format that even its inventor says only 20 people should care about. Apache Iceberg, a management layer that sits atop data files in cloud storage, has become ...
Clerk Chat raises $7M to simplify business text messaging
Clerk Chat Inc., a startup building a messaging platform that integrates with major telecommunications carriers, today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based firm plans to use the cash to improve its messaging capabilities and strengthen relationships with telecom providers. The company was born from the limitations of conventional short messaging ...
Nvidia aims to boost Blackwell GPUs by donating platform design to the Open Compute Project
Nvidia Corp. today said it has contributed parts of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project and broadened support for OCP standards in its Spectrum-X networking fabric. Nvidia hopes the move will help solidify its new line of Blackwell graphics processing units, which are now in production, as a standard for ...
Domino Data Lab seeks to embed governance in AI development
Data science startup Domino Data Lab Inc. has become the latest company to introduce a platform for automating governance in artificial intelligence development, saying its extensive experience with large organizations and federal government agencies gives it a unique advantage. Domino Governance is an attempt to automate the largely manual processes that many organizations use to ...
Dell introduces AMD-based AI servers and tightens Hugging Face ties
Dell Technologies Inc. today launched five new PowerEdge servers using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s 5th Generation EPYC processors and targeted at artificial intelligence development and model deployment. The announcements represent “a massive expansion of our partnership with the AMD,” said Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of product marketing at Dell. The PowerEdge XE7745 is designed ...
Relyance AI raises $32M to make AI data governance more transparent
Relyance AI Inc., developer of a governance platform that provides visibility and control over enterprise-wide data, today announced a $32.1 million Series B funding round. The four-year-old startup, which secured a $30 million funding round in 2021, plans to use the money to scale up operations and address the rapidly growing demand for more transparency ...
Apollo bridges the gap between GraphQL and REST APIs
Apollo GraphQL Inc., a provider of tools and services for working with the GraphQL open-source data query language, today announced a set of connectors that bridge the gap between GraphQL and representational state transfer application programming interfaces, which are widely used to build web services that allow communication between services and applications. Developed by Facebook ...
Smartsheet overhauls user experience and expands project management capacity
Smartsheet Inc. used its annual Engage conference today to unveil a completely overhauled user experience aimed at making its work management platform simpler to use. The company’s platform, which is used by more than 13 million professionals and 85% of Fortune 500 companies, enables project managers to track their tasks at a fine-grained level, displaying ...
Sonar now inspects AI-generated code for glitches
Sonar, which sells tools that check software code for bugs, inconsistencies and security flaws, today announced two new products aimed at artificial intelligence-powered software development. AI Code Assurance for the company’s SonarQube and SonarCloud managed services inspects code created by generative AI copilots to ensure it meets a business’s quality and security standards. A companion ...