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LogicMonitor says new AI assistant can reduce IT operations alerts by 95%
Venerable observability vendor LogicMonitor Inc. today introduced a generative artificial intelligence copilot tuned for use by information technology operations staff. The company said Edwin AI (pictured) is aimed at reducing alert fatigue, diagnosing incidents more quickly, lowering resolution times and simplifying complex observability issues. It was built from the ground up and is not based on ...
Surprise: Google tops Forrester’s first ranking of AI foundation models
Forrester Research Inc. just released its first Wave ranking of artificial intelligence foundation models, and the findings might raise some eyebrows. The research firm rated Google LLC as the leader in the category by a substantial margin, with Databricks Inc., Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp. and OpenAI LLC listed as “strong performers.” Google earned the top spot ...
Startup claims it can automate 80% of software development with generative AI
A five-person startup based in Paris and San Francisco is emerging today with the audacious claim of being able to create enterprise-grade software with generative artificial intelligence entirely from natural language descriptions, slashing development times by 80% in the process. Shreds.AI is self-funded and unknown, but nothing is modest about its ambitions. It wants to ...
Databricks broadly boosts support for AI model training
Databricks Inc. today announced several enhancements to its Mosaic AI toolset for building and deploying artificial intelligence models that specifically target generative AI applications. The improvements, announced at the company’s Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, are aimed at better supporting compound AI systems, or those that involve several interacting components, as well as ...
Pegasystems expands generative AI to process design and user training
Low-code workflow automation provider Pegasystems Inc. today is using its PegaWorld iNspire conference in Las Vegas to roll out enhancements to its Pega GenAI Blueprint application design-as-a-service tool and introduce an overhauled approach to training that uses generative artificial intelligence to simulate individual tutoring. Pega has already incorporated generative AI into several of its products. Its ...
Study finds fears of post-Broadcom VMware customer flight may be overblown
Forecasts of mass abandonment of VMware Inc. customer defections to other virtualization technology providers in the wake of Broadcom Inc.’s $61 billion acquisition of the virtualization giant may be overblown, according to a study released today by CloudBolt Software Inc. in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. CloudBolt surveyed 300 information technology executives with responsibility ...
How some enterprises have licked the AI data problem
Thomson Reuters Corp. is betting big on generative artificial intelligence, and it has the data foundation in place to do so. The global provider of professional information for the legal, accounting, government and media industries announced last November that it plans to invest more than $100 million in generative AI and fold the technology into ...
Databricks acquires Tabular in a big move to close the compatibility gap with Apache Iceberg
Databricks Inc. today agreed to acquire Tabular Technologies Inc., developer of a universal storage platform based on the Apache Iceberg standard. The move signals stepped-up efforts by Databricks to bridge the compatibility gap between its Delta Lake storage format and Iceberg. Terms weren’t announced, but Databricks Chief Executive Ali Ghodsi (pictured) told CNBC the price tag was more ...
Neo4j integrates dozens of graph analytics functions with data in Snowflake
Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to access more than 65 graph algorithms using SQL without moving data out of the Snowflake environment. The algorithms cover a variety of common ...
Snowflake broadly enhances AI features, adds no-code platform and boosts AI development tools
Snowflake Inc. is using its annual Snowflake Summit to introduce enhancements to Cortex AI, a managed service that makes it easier for organizations to discover, analyze and build artificial intelligence applications in the Snowflake Data Cloud. New features include the ability to quickly develop chatbots for querying data, a no-code interactive interface, access to several ...