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I'm excited to be live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas. This year's event is packed with announcements about the leading-edge of cloud computing and the hot topic of the year, generative AI.
Salesforce will support Amazon Bedrock, AWS' managed service for foundational models with one API. Amazon Bedrock will also be available through Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer.
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Fiona Tan, CTO of Wayfair, said alignment between business and technology is critical--especially when navigating a demand surge and a pivot to efficiency. The key to navigating th...
"Strong sales of the NVIDIA HGX platform were driven by global demand for the training and inferencing of large language models, recommendation engines, and generative AI applicati...
Dairyland Power Cooperative, a La Crosse, Wis., is a utility designed to serve rural areas and supply power to customers in four states. It also sits in the middle of multiple tren...
Critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and design are the top skills employers are banking on as generative AI is widely adopted through 2028, according to an Amazon surv...
Microsoft hires ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. "We have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and ...
With holiday shopping season underway, retailers see uncertain consumer spending, better inventory positions, lower supply chain costs and customer experience investments they hope...
Sam Altman just faced his Steve Jobs moment when the OpenAI board fired him on Friday.
The balance between too much governance and not enough innovation was the challenge OpenAI faced. This was a very immature board with members who had never built companies, never moved from ideology to commercialization, nor had any pragmatic board experience.
With enterprises still kicking the tires on large language models (LLMs), use cases and generative AI applications, vendors are big on providing choice, bring-your-own-models and t...
The board said that Altman's departure follows "a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board...
At Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference the company fleshed out its generative AI offerings and strategy and, in some places, put some serious distance between it and the competition.
ServiceNow's generative AI strategy revolves around what it calls "practical generative AI applications" that focus on use cases and smaller models that are more efficient.
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Nadella, speaking at Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference, said the company wants to "bring the best selection of open-source models to Azure and do so responsibly."
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Microsoft fleshed out its generative AI infrastructure plans with the launch of its custom processors for model training and inference along with Copilot Studio for new use cases.
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While cloud hyperscalers have dominated the generative AI discussion, enterprises are wary of costs as well as protecting data and see hybrid approaches more viable.
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Nvidia launched its Nvidia H200 GPU, which will offer faster memory and more bandwidth for generative AI workloads. The H200 will ship in the second quarter of 2024.
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Wayfair saw breakneck growth three years ago and an ensuing hangover that required a focus on operating margins and execution, but a technology transformation has the company think...
