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Mike Fitzsimmons, Cofounder & CEO of Crosschq, has started four companies and his biggest headache across industries was the same: Making good hires.
Speaking on DisrupTV Episode 331, Fitzsimmons said:
One of the most consequential fields in digital technology saw its first major public event recently, with the inaugural Confidential Computing Summit held in San Francisco on June 29. I was not able to attend but I have been following closely the emergence of this vital industry and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC). Here I offer some observations and reflections on what should become the foundational to the digital economy.
Chegg is betting that a partnership with Scale AI can provide a new student experience over the next two semesters and develop proprietary large language models (LLMs) that can create personalized study tools. The goal: Develop generative AI tools that leverage Chegg's differentiated data and get to market fast.
Nvidia at Siggraph outlined an AI vision where developers will create, test and optimize generative AI models and large language models (LLMs) on a PC and workstation and then scale them via data centers or the cloud.
RingCentral launched RingCX, a native contact center platform currently in beta, in a strategy shift that minimized partner NICE. RingCX is a native platform that will include RingCentral's unified communications tools with contact center capabilities as well as generative AI.
Five9 said it will acquire Aceyus, which ingests data from multiple customer experience systems and provides insights and analytics. Separately, Five9 reported second quarter earnings and projected $908 million to $910 million in 2023 revenue.
Aceyus provides call center analytics, customer journey data, omni-channel reporting and multiple integrations. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Zoom updated its terms of service to give the platform the right to use some customer data for training its AI models. Should customers enable Zoom's generative AI features, they'll have to sign a consent form to train models with customer content.
However, Zoom said that it will not use audio, video or chat content for training models without consent.
DisrupTV Episode 331: Customer-Centric Innovation, App Capital & Winning the Hiring Game
In this compelling episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar welcome three industry leaders:
Mika Yamamoto – Executive VP & Chief Customer Engagement and Marketing Officer, F5
Meta recently open-sourced Llama 2 and made it free for research and commercial uses. The move quickly put Llama 2 on the open-source leaderboard for large language models (LLMs) and spurred enterprises to give it a spin.
Salesforce launched Einstein Studio, which allows customers to bring their large language models (LLMs) from other services such as AWS' Amazon SageMaker, Google Cloud Vertex AI and other services via Salesforce Data Cloud.
With Einstein Studio, enterprises can bring their own LLMs to Salesforce Data Cloud without moving data. Salesforce's Einstein Studio, which is generally available, can use custom LLMs along with Einstein GPT's LLMs and remove the need for Extract Transform and Load (ETL).
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy fleshed out Amazon Web Services' narrative when it comes to generative AI providing a multi-level view that also includes a good dose of its own silicon.
Apple's fiscal third quarter revenue was down 1% from a year ago, iPhone and iPad sales were light relative to expectations and services revenue surged.
For the third quarter, Apple reported earnings per share of $1.26 with revenue of $81.8 billion.
Wall Street was expecting Apple to report fiscal third quarter revenue of $81.7 billion with earnings of $1.19 a share. As usual, iPhone revenue was expected to carry the quarter.
Amazon Web Services sales in the second quarter were up 12% from a year ago to $22.1 billion with operating income of $5.4 billion.
Overall, Amazon reported second quarter net income of $6.7 billion, or 65 cents a share, on revenue of $134.4 billion. The earnings include a $200 million gain from the valuation of Rivian.
What's happening with Meta's latest Llama 2 #LLM and its new partnership with Microsoft? What does this mean for the future of #GenerativeAI?
Constellation analyst Andy ThurAI sits down with Constellation Editor in Chief Larry Dignan to discuss trends and pitfalls of large language models, and how #enterprises will use #LLMs and #AI technology in the future...
User groups are not happy about SAP's plan to only offer the latest innovations to cloud customers only.
During SAP's second quarter earnings call, SAP CEO Christian Klein said:
Unity Software is best known for its game and virtual reality development platforms, but the company also has a fast-growing business focused on digital twin creation.
Qualcomm said it will roll out a series of generative AI products at its Snapdragon Summit in October. The company is betting that its mobile processor units will be a must have for AI use cases on edge computing and devices.
The idea of using local compute power to run AI models has been picking up. Enterprises are pondering whether they can offload AI workloads to devices instead of running them on their dime.
RingCentral is buying Hopin’s Events, an event management platform for virtual and hybrid events, and Hopin Sessions, a personalized engagement system, as the company increasingly goes toe-to-toe with Zoom Video Communications.
We are excited to announce the finalists for our 13th annual SuperNova Awards! This year’s frontrunners include outstanding leaders and teams who are implementing disruptive and innovative technology initiatives within their industries and communities.
AMD CEO Lisa Su said multiple customers are at the chipmaker to power AI projects and have "initiated or expanded programs supporting future deployments of Instinct accelerators at scale."
Su made the comments as the company reported second quarter earnings. The company reported second quarter revenue of $5.36 billion, down 18% from a year ago, with net income of $27 million, or 2 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings for the second quarter were 58 cents a share.
Lee Rainie, former director of internet research at Pew Research Center, wanted to wind down his career of collecting data with capstone project. Why not predict the best and worst changes over the next decade due to artificial intelligence?
New Relic is going private via a $6.5 billion acquisition by Francisco Partners and TPG in a move that aims to speed up a business model transformation and expansion plans.
DisrupTV Episode 330: The Future of Work, Trust Tax & Imposter Syndrome
In this compelling episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with three visionary leaders:
Yusuf Tayob – Group Chief Executive, Accenture Operations