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Service NSW wins the 2023 Supernova Award for Digital Safety, Governance and Privacy
In something of a rarity, Constellation Research has recognised a major government for innovation.
Alphabet's Google has launched Gemini, its most powerful model designed to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT, in three sizes Gemini Ultra focused on complex tasks, Gemini Pro, an all-purpose model, and Gemini Nano, which is aimed at on-device usage.
GitLab is on a $559 million revenue run rate exiting the third quarter with 8,175 base customers. While that quarter is garnering Wall Street attention, enterprises should focus on the competitive dynamics moving GitLab's results as its DevSecOps platform gains traction.
Microsoft Copilot is being upgraded to OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model as the software giant rolls out a series of generative AI updates. The move comes as Microsoft and OpenAI move to put the Sam Altman kerfuffle in the rear-view mirror.
IBM and Meta have formed the AI Alliance with 50 founding members aiming to provide "open and transparent innovation" in artificial intelligence. The catch is that many of the big names--Google, Nvidia and Microsoft--driving the AI advances so far aren't among the founding members.
It's safe to say #quantumcomputing is hard. That's why IBM has expanded its latest quantum road map to include a holistic view of scale, quality, and speed - shifting from an era of DISCOVERY to an era of UTILITY...
IBM's newly launched road map offers:
IBM launched its IBM Quantum System Two as well as its next-generation quantum processor as the company touts what's possible today with quantum computing.
At the company's IBM Quantum Summit in New York, Big Blue launched IBM Quantum Heron, a 133-qubit processor that's designed to deliver performance and low error rates relative to its predecessor.
MongoDB announced the general availability of MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes in the latest in a series of announcements to enable developers to more easily build generative AI applications.
The general availability of MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and Atlas Search Nodes follows up from a June launch where the company set out to enable AI and large language model (LLM) workloads.
DisrupTV Episode 344: Transforming Leadership, Culture & Inclusion at Work
In DisrupTV Episode 344, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a dynamic conversation with four distinguished experts who delve into the evolving landscape of leadership, organizational culture, and inclusion:
UiPath is gaining momentum as high profile partnerships, AI and automation and a focus on large enterprises and industries pay off.
The automation platform company reported better-than-expected third quarter sales of $326 million, up 24% from a year ago, and annual recurring revenue of $1.38 billion. UiPath reported a net loss in the third quarter of $31.54 million, or 6 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings in the quarter were 12 cents a share.
It’s a wrap at AWS Re:Invent, but here’s my take on two more data-and-analytics-related announcements from Las Vegas: Amazon Q in Redshift and Amazon Q in AWS Glue.
Amazon Q Recap
Dell Technologies' infrastructure unit saw strength in AI-optimized servers, but revenue in the third quarter for the data center group was down 12% from a year ago.
The results highlight the moving parts for data center vendors. AI-optimized gear is selling well as traditional storage and server systems lag. HPE saw similar issues in its quarter.
"Cost awareness is a lost art. We need to regain that art," said Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels, speaking at Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference. AWS also launched a new tool to manage application resources within the AWS Management Console as well as CloudWatch Application Signals to automatically instrument applications.
📺 Watch the latest episode of Impact TV: Humanizing AI Commerce
Co-hosts R "Ray" Wang, founder of Constellation Research and Teresa Barreira, CMO of Publicis Sapient explore the powerful synergies between #technology and the human touch, and how this fusion can impact the #digital commerce landscape and the people it serves...
Ray and Teresa sit down with the following #data and #AI experts to learn more:
Snowflake reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings and CEO Frank Slootman said the company sees "a broadly stabilizing macro environment."
The company reported a third quarter net loss of $214.25 million on revenue of $734.17 million, up 31.8% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the third quarter were 25 cents a share, compared to estimates of 16 cents a share.
Salesforce is projecting fourth-quarter revenue growth of 10% after reporting better-than-expected third quarter earnings.
The company reported third-quarter earnings of $1.25 a share on revenue of $8.72 billion, up 11% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the quarter were $2.11.
Wall Street was expecting Salesforce to report third quarter earnings of $2.06 a share on revenue of $8.72 billion.
Constellation founder and analyst R "Ray" Wang interviews Matt Candy, Global Managing Partner for IBM Consulting about the latest initiatives and solutions happening at IBM around generative AI. Candy about data governance and IBM's future plans for scaling it's AI solutions.
This segment is also included in ConstellationTV episode 69. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/vRVe3ZfCR_o
🎬 ConstellationTV Ep. 69 has dropped! This week, catch co-hosts Liz Miller and Holger Mueller analyzing the latest #enterprise tech news, then learn IBM's latest #GenerativeAI research & initiatives during an interview between R "Ray" Wang and Matthew Candy, IBM Consulting Global Managing Partner. Next, hear Holger Mueller's real-time takeaways from #awsreinvent2023 and round out the episode with hilarious bloopers!
ServiceNow applications will be available on Amazon Web Services Marketplace as part of a five-year strategic collaboration agreement between the two companies. ServiceNow and AWS will also co-develop AI business applications focused on industries.
AWS re:Invent is an overwhelming barrage of features, services and launches that fly by so fast you can miss a lot of things that could drive real business value.
To that end, here are a some of the announcements that team Constellation Research thought were interesting even if they didn't get all the attention that Amazon Q, SageMaker, Graviton, Trainium and Inferentia get. These items were dropped by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky in passing while others hit the wires ahead of the lead keynote.
Among the more than 200 announcements slated for #AWSreinvent 2023, new Zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redsift and AI Recommendations for Amazon DataZone were two data-related announcements that caught my eye. Both were announced by Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during his November 28 keynote address.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise saw strong intelligent edge and high-performance computing and AI revenue growth in the fourth quarter, but its legacy compute and storage businesses struggled.