Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI
At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy.
Under the brand Nvidia AI Foundations, each individual c
Adobe brings product analytics to its Experience Cloud
Adobe today announced the launch of a new analytics solution for product teams at its Adobe Summit conference in Las Vegas. Dubbed Adobe Product Analytics (because Adobe doesn’t mess around with its products’ names), this new service aims to give product teams access to key metrics into
With Firefly, Adobe gets into the generative AI game
Adobe is jumping into the generative AI game with the launch of a new famy of AI models called Firefly.
Focused on bringing AI into Adobe’s suite of apps and services, specifically AI for generating media content, Firefly wl be made up of multiple AI models “working across a variety of
Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M
Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and Ubimo, and Roman was a principal on Amazon’s ElastiCache service.
“Developers are fed up with hand
Adobe launches generative AI tools aimed at marketers
Coinciding with the launch of its Firefly family of generative AI models, Adobe today unveiled Adobe Sensei Generative AI Services, a set of enterprise-focused, AI-powered services across its suite of productivity apps.
Generative AI Services — or “Sensei GenAI,” for short —
Pilot AI taps algorithms to extract info from sales calls
Maxwell Lu, formerly a product engineer at Salesforce and the head of revenue operations at a previous startup, found himself frustrated by the task of re-listening to sales calls to write up notes and fill out entries in customer relationship management (CRM) software. Searching for a better way,
Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform
Organizations dealing with large amounts of data often struggle to ensure that data remains high-quality. According to a survey by Great Expectations, which creates open source tools for data testing, 77% of companies have data quality issues and 91% believe that it’s impacting their performa
AWS takes a hit in latest round of Amazon layoffs
When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would be included into today's round.
technewss is hearing that around 10% of today's total came from AWS. The
Numbers Station raises $17.5M to bring AI to your data stack
When you think of foundation models and what they can accomplish, chances are you are thinking of text and image creation. Numbers Station, however, is taking these models in a very different direction. The startup, which is announcing a $17.5 mlion Series A round today, is using these models to bu
Amazon confirms another round of layoffs, impacting 9,000 people in AWS, Twitch and other units
Amazon has announced yet another substantial round of layoffs, as the internet giant today revealed that a further 9,000 people are set to lose their jobs.
In a memo published by CEO Andy Jassy this morning, the company said that the cuts will impact those in its AWS cloud unit, Twitch gaming divis
Corporate investment in AI is on the rise, driven by the tech’s promise
It’s safe to say that AI is top of mind for enterprises — assuming it wasn’t before.
According to a recent Accenture survey, 63% of organizations are now prioritizing AI over all other digital technologies. That might sound drastic. But on the other hand, it’s not entirely surpr
Berlin’s Monite raises $5M seed for its embedded B2B payments platform
With turbulent economies, companies are looking for more revenue streams to survive, and one obvious way to increase revenues is to streamline costs. Given companies can often use both manual processing and sometimes even more than one external tool to manage B2B payments, this is an obvious area i
The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises
The great cloud migration has revolutionized IT, but after a decade of cloud transformations, the most sophisticated enterprises are now taking the next generational leap: developing true hybrid strategies to support increasingly business-critical data science initiatives and repatriating workloads
Technical interview platform Karat snaps up Triplebyte to add adaptive quizzes for engineers
The technology industry continues to rack up an ever-longer list of layoffs — which now stand at nearly 139,000 according to Layoffs.fyi — but taking the wider job market, the overall pace of recruiting engineers and other technical talent has not let up. Now, one of the bigger players