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Constellation Editor in Chief Larry Dignan sat down with Renganathan at Constellation Research’s Ambient Experience Summit. Here are the main takeaways..
Digital transformation challenges remain. Companies struggle to fully leverage their digital platforms and integrate new technologies effectively, said Renganathan, an AX100 member. "Customers have invested heavily in these platforms, but they have not used the tools to its best potential,” he added.
Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, said its infrastructure is being taxed by non-human traffic scraping the site for data to train AI models.
With the rise of these data collecting bots, the Wikimedia funding model is being turned upside down. Wikipedia content has been a big part of search engine results and that brought traffic to the company's site. AI has changed that equation and will challenge Wikimedia's ability to sustain itself.
Informatica's Spring launch of its platform integrates its data management platform with the key enterprise data platforms as well as a preview of its CLAIRE Copilot for Data Integration.
The product launch lands as Informatica named Krish Vitaldevara, a veteran of Microsoft, Google and NetApp, is chief product officer. Vitaldevara will be paired with Bala Kumaresan, global head of engineering. Kumaresan joined Informatica earlier this year and held executive roles at Informatica, Symantec, Oracle and F5.
Platform9, which has been gaining momentum in moving VMware customers to its private cloud suite, launched a community edition of its Private Cloud Director.
Private Cloud Director Community Edition, which is now generally available, has the full Private Cloud Director capabilities free of charge for single region deployments.
OpenAI's move to raise another $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation is being funded by Softbank, which in turn is paying for its bet with a lot of leverage.
Should we be worried about the amount of debt being floated to build out AI infrastructure? Not yet. But remember that debt is swell until it isn't.
Amazon is putting its Nova family large language models (LLMs) on display for a tryout aims to spur developer interest. And if Alexa+, which is also available for early access, performs well Nova's profile will only increase.
AI agents remain the hot topic among BT150 CxOs and there’s little to no doubt multi-agent systems will be useful. However, there are doubts about vendor offerings, platform lock-in, data strategy, architecture and change management.
With our monthly meeting of BT150 CxOs, multiple agentic AI takes surfaced both about the present and the future. Our CxO call, which is operated under Chatham House rules, highlighted a bevy of takeaways. Here's the breakdown:
Cognizant is betting that it can embed agentic AI across enterprises, expand its total addressable market and drive what it calls "hyper-productivity" for its customers.
The strategy will be driven by the ability to design enterprise AI agents that work across systems, create industry-specific large language models and build its own platforms such as Cognizant Neuro AI, which is built on Nvidia's stack.
AI models are quickly including the physical world and multiple modalities and a humanoid robot inflection point may soon follow.
That's the gist coming out of Nvidia's GTC 2025 conference and recent developments. The combination of foundational AI models that apply to robotics means enterprises need to start thinking through the key concepts. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors during GTC that "the business opportunity is well upstream of the robot."
The Greatest Risk of AI: Insights from DisrupTV Episode 393
In DisrupTV Episode 393, hosted by R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar, a panel of thought leaders discussed the most pressing risks associated with artificial intelligence. The conversation centered on the evolving role of AI in the workplace and its potential implications.
Raja Renganathan. Chief Growth Officer at Randstad Digital, said enterprises have invested heavily in various platforms, but need to focus on transformation—technical and cultural—to truly break workflow silos with AI.
CoreWeave filed to go public and it's unclear whether the company's debut on the stock market will be a signal of an AI infrastructure top or just a milepost on a multi-year buildout.
One thing is clear: CoreWeave has crazy revenue growth, depends on two customers and is losing hefty sums.
Workato launched Workato One, a platform designed for agentic AI workflows, AgentX Apps, pre-built agents that orchestrate business processes across multiple systems, and acquired DeepConverse, which specializes in automated customer support.
OpenAI's support of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) may be the start of easier interoperability among AI agents.
The large language model (LLM) giant announced its support for MCP for the OpenAI Agents Software Development Kit (SDK) with plans to enable it for the OpenAI API and ChatGPT Desktop.
Databricks inked a five-year partnership with Anthropic to offer Claude models directly through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks also highlighted a system to enhance large language model performance without requiring label data.