Here is AITech365’s Weekly Roundup of the top news from global markets. In this fast-paced world, breaking down information helps readers grasp the nuances that follow the news.
In Analytics news this week…
Oracle announced the general availability of HeatWave GenAI, which includes the industry’s first in-database large language models (LLMs), an automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, and the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language informed by unstructured content. These new capabilities enable customers to bring the power of generative AI to their enterprise data—without requiring AI expertise or having to move data to a separate vector database.
In Cybersecurity news this week…
The Ultimate AI-Powered Defense Against Internal Information Theft: EchoMark Unveils SecureView
EchoMark, the ultimate defense against costly information theft that threatens all organizations, announced the launch of SecureView, the most secure way to share information. SecureView’s enterprise-grade, AI-powered protections eliminate email attachments, risky downloads, unauthorized image captures, and untraceable emails — all of which are vulnerable to intentional and unintentional disclosures.
In IT and DevOps news this week…
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced the general availability of LLM Observability, which allows AI application developers and machine learning (ML) engineers to efficiently monitor, improve and secure large language model (LLM) applications. With LLM Observability, companies can accelerate the deployment of generative AI applications to production environments and scale them reliably.
In Computing news this week…
Intel Demonstrates First Fully Integrated Optical I/O Chiplet
Intel Corporation has achieved a revolutionary milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission. At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024, Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group demonstrated the industry’s most advanced and first-ever fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data. Intel’s OCI chiplet represents a leap forward in high-bandwidth interconnect by enabling co-packaged optical input/output (I/O) in emerging AI infrastructure for data centers and high performance computing (HPC) applications.
In Robotic Process Automation news this week…
LG Debuts AI-Powered Door-Type Service Robot for Hospitality and Healthcare
LG Business Solutions USA introduced its next generation LG CLOi ServeBot, an autonomous, door-type service robot designed to provide safe delivery services in hospitality and healthcare settings. Featuring a four-door design with ample interior storage space, the new CLOi ServeBot (model LDLIM31) can perform simple and repetitive delivery tasks to reduce the burden on busy staff.
In Cloud news this week…
Teradata announced that it will offer Teradata Vantage Cloud Lake on Google Cloud, featuring updates that are designed to leverage the strengths of both Teradata and Google Cloud to deliver Trusted AI with the expertise, scale, and technology that enterprises require. Key components of Vantage Cloud Lake – the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI – are Teradata’s ClearScape Analytics and a connected ecosystem that, for the Google Cloud edition, includes seamless integrations with Google Cloud’s robust AI technologies, Vertex AI platform, and Gemini models.
In Healthcare news this week…
EvolutionaryScale Launches with AWS, ESM3- A Milestone AI Model for Biology
EvolutionaryScale, a frontier AI research lab for biology, launched with ESM3, a milestone AI model capable of generating novel proteins. ESM3 generated a new Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), a process that would take 500 million years of evolution to occur naturally. This milestone generative AI model allows interactive prompting to create proteins, empowering scientists to advance applications from drug discovery, and materials science, to carbon capture.
In Generative AI news this week…
AI21 Announces Availability of Jamba-Instruct on Amazon Bedrock
AI21, a leader in building foundation models and AI systems for the enterprise, announced the availability of Jamba-Instruct, the company’s novel blocks-and-layers approach that successfully integrates novel SSM architecture with the conventional Transformer architecture, on Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service utilized by the world’s top companies to build and deploy generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock clients will now be the first to be able to build with Jamba-Instruct’s full 256K context window available on a major cloud provider.
In Machine Learning news this week…
ZEISS arivis software enhances custom microscopy image analysis
ZEISS unveiled arivis Pro version 4.2, empowering researchers with unprecedented flexibility to tailor microscopy image analysis to their unique needs. This major release introduces advanced AI-powered segmentation tools, enhanced 3D analysis capabilities, and seamless handling of massive datasets – a universal solution optimized for any imaging workflow.
Insight of the Week
What Is a Humanoid? A Closer Look Into Future Bots
The term “humanoid” is hitting everyone’s feed. The arrival of humanoid robots—yes, those human-like machines—is getting a mixed bag of reactions from the public. But that isn’t stopping the tech giants from pouring serious cash into these futuristic contraptions. Take Figure AI, for instance. This $2.6 billion robotics startup has big-name backers like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia. Meanwhile, Tesla has already rolled out its Optimus robot on the factory floor.