This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
IBM used Adobe Firefly over the last year to lower its #content spend by 80% 📉 and reduced its ideation time from 15 days to 2 days in a marketing campaign executed in and around the Sphere in Las Vegas.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company is committed to serving the public sector and government "in all of its domains" and said Google Public Sector is the only completely independent division to give it the leeway to serve customers.
Kurian's comments, which were delivered at the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington DC, come as the company's government playbook revolves around showing what it can do for various services with Gemini and its AI portfolio and being seen as an AI partner.
Google Public Sector said Gemini in Google Distributed Cloud for secret and top-secret workloads will be available in early 2025 as the two-year-old unit announced key customer wins NIH Strides and CalHEERS as well as a Federal AI Solution Factory with Accenture. Google Cloud also won new authorizations for Air Force Cloud One to provide cloud services to the Department of the Airforce.
Last week, Amazon Web Services had a big analyst show in Seattle briefing who is who in the AI analyst community of their Generative AI vision, strategy, and roadmap. A lot of the material shared was under NDA and a precursor to what will be announced at reInvent. Here are my top takeaways from the event that can be shared publicly. At their recent Generative AI Analyst Summit in Seattle, AWS unveiled a vision that could reshape how businesses approach AI adoption. As a CXO, you need to understand the implications of this strategy for your organization's future.
The German Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) said that SAP on-premises customers are being discriminated against because the software vendor is requiring that new innovations, notably generative AI, will be delivered on its cloud platform.
DSAG is holding its annual conference and users are trying to navigate digital transformation and AI as well as their own IT budgets.
Dell Technologies launched its Dell PowerEdge XE9712, a system built on Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 platform with 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs and 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in a rack.
The system, available with liquid cooling, builds on Dell Technologies' AI Factory strategy for scale-out AI workloads. The Dell PowerEdge XE9712's 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs use NVLink to act as one GPU.
Databricks broadened its partnership with Amazon Web Services in a move that will put Databricks Mosaic AI on AWS for custom models. In addition, Databricks will use AWS' Trainium chips as its preferred infrastructure for model training.
Under the partnership, Databricks and AWS will give joint customers the ability to use Mosaic AI to pretrain, tune and serve large language models (LLMs) on AWS.
Google is the latest cloud giant to tap into nuclear power to power its AI workloads. The company said that it inked purchase agreement to use Kairos Power small modular reactors (SMRs) to power data centers.
Adobe launched its Firefly Video Model in beta, added Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing and layered generative AI features throughout its suite of products.
The news, announced at Adobe's flagship Max conference in Miami, includes the following:
Ashwin Rangan, who has been in the CxO game for three decades at ICANN, Rockwell International, Walmart and Bank of America, has seen his share of technology cycles and generative AI is just the latest.
Artificial intelligence budgets will surge again in 2025, but good luck tracking expenditures with any precision as generative AI spending is lumped into other categories and driven by multiple departments.
Mindshift & Irreplaceability in the AI Era
DisrupTV Episode 378 — Brian Solis & Pascal Bornet
In DisrupTV Episode 378, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Brian Solis, author of Mindshift, and Pascal Bornet, author of Irreplaceable. They delve into the evolving landscape of leadership, emphasizing the need for a mindset shift to thrive in the age of AI.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched an AMD-powered system designed for complex AI model training. The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 leverages 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators.
AMD launched its latest CPUs and GPUs at its AI event. A bevy of systems makers appeared on stage with AMD CEO Lisa Su.
During its October event - Teradata Possible LA - Teradata announced BYO-LLM and GPU acceleration options, giving customers flexibility for #generativeAI #innovation.
Hear from Doug Henschen, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, as he gives an in-depth report LIVE from the event and unpacks the implications of Teradata's big announcements.
Dell Technologies launched new systems powered by AMD's next-generation EPYC server processors and PowerEdge XC9680 system powered by AMD Instinct MI300 and 300x AI accelerators. Dell is also surrounding those AMD powered AI systems with services and the chipmaker's software stack.
AMD launched its 5th Gen EPYC processor as well as its latest Instinct MI325X accelerators as it aims to gain AI workloads from inference to model training. The big takeaway is that AMD is well equipped to give Nvidia competition for AI workloads.
The chipmaker said its MI325X platform will begin production in the fourth quarter with favorable performance vs. Nvidia's H200 GPUs. AMD also outlined its annual cadence as well as the roadmap head into 2025.
During #ClimateWeekNYC, Constellation Research, founder R "Ray" Wang had an engaging conversation with Sol Salinas, EVP, and Sustainability Lead for Capgemini Americas on the role of #sustainability, climate #tech, and #AI in addressing environmental challenges.
The discussion explored:
The Seattle Seahawks are using Amazon Bedrock, generative AI and other AWS services to distribute video and content faster with a focus on quick returns as well as long-tail opportunities. Here's a look at the project and lessons learned so far.
We made it to ConstellationTV episode 90! 📺 Hear co-hosts Holger Mueller and Liz Miller discuss enterprise technology news, including AI Forum highlights, AI integration in workforce management, and the impact of OpenAI's recent funding and future innovation.
Then R "Ray" Wang has an engaging conversation with Sol Salinas, EVP, and Sustainability Lead for Capgemini Americas on the role of sustainability, climate tech, and AI in addressing environmental challenges.
The Seattle Seahawks are revolutionizing their video content distribution with the help of #AWS and #generativeAI. In a recent interview, Kenton Olson, VP of Digital and Emerging Media for the Seahawks, shared insights into their innovative project with Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights
A few highlights include...
Zoom outlined its roadmap and upcoming products that include AI Companion 2.0 across its platform, a focus on work management for frontline workers and a deeper dive into contact center, education and healthcare markets.
In a briefing, Smita Hashim, Chief Product Officer at Zoom, said the company's AI Companion effort initially revolved around the theme of meet happy by adding tools for engagement, becoming more productive and collaboration. With AI Companion 2.0, Zoom is expanding its view more toward work happy.
Atlassian said its latest AI features and Rovo, a generative AI assistant that operates across the company's platform, are generally available across the company's products. Atlassian also introduced Rovo Agents.