What are the important questions to ask when developing or using AI? Long views on AI, Part 2
What does fairness in AI mean, and is it relevant in your use case? This question is posed by Beena Ammanath. Ammanath is the Global Head of the Deloitte AI Institute, Founder of Humans For AI and Board Member of AnitaB.org, as well as an author. I’ve had the pleasure of conversing with her a couple […]
Read More →How LinkedIn is moving towards a skills-based economy with the Skills Graph
What is a skills-based economy and how is LinkedIn moving from vision to implementation? As LinkedIn Director of Engineering Sofus Macskássy shares, there’s AI, taxonomy, and ontology involved in building the Skills Graph that powers it. By George Anadiotis Skills are the new currency. That’s a bold statement, coming from LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. Roslansky makes […]
Read More →What is the right balance between innovation and regulation in AI? Long views on AI, Part 1
What AI model maker would take the risk to make any powerful model if they could be responsible for anything someone might possibly do with it? This question is posed by Dan Jeffries – author, futurist, engineer, and systems architect. I’ve had the pleasure of conversing with him a couple of times. First about the […]
Read More →Amazon Neptune introduces a new Analytics engine and the One Graph vision
Amazon Neptune, the managed graph database service by AWS, makes analytics faster and more agile while introducing a vision aiming to simplify graph databases. By George Anadiotis It’s not every day that you hear product leads questioning the utility of their own products. Brad Bebee, the general manager of Amazon Neptune, was all serious when he […]
Read More →AI Chips in 2024: NVIDIA, MLPerf benchmarks, Huang’s law, and competition
What we learned on AI Chips in 2024 by keeping track of NVIDIA’s latest announcements, talking to industry experts, and scanning news and analyses By George Anadiotis Exploring AI chips has been a pastime, as a well as a popular theme in Orchestrate all the Things articles. In 2023, we felt like we fell somewhat […]
Read More →Aerospike Graph: A new entry in the graph database market, aiming to tackle complex problems at scale
“Graph database growth is going strong through the Trough of Disillusionment.” And “Graph Analytics go big and real-time.” These were two of the headlines of the Spring 2023 update of the Year of the Graph newsletter. In combination, they seem like an appropriate summary of the reasoning behind a new entry in the graph database […]
Read More →LinkedIn’s feed evolution: more granular and powerful machine learning, humans still in the loop
LinkedIn’s feed has come a long way since the early days of assembling the machine learning infrastructure that powers it. Recently, a major update to this infrastructure was released. We caught up with the people behind it to discuss how the principle of being people-centric translates to technical terms and implementation. How do data and […]
Read More →Useful Sensors launches AI in a Box, aiming to establish a different paradigm for edge computing and TinyML
Would you leave a Google Staff Research Engineer role just because you want your TV to automatically pause when you get up to get a cup of tea? Actually, how is that even relevant, you might ask. Let’s see what Pete Warden, former Google Staff Research Engineer and now CEO and Founder of Useful Sensors, […]
Read More →Neo4j’s roadmap in 2023: Cloud, Graph Data Science, Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Neo4j recently announced new product features in collaboration with Google, as well as a new Chief Product Officer coming from Google: Sudhir Hasbe. We caught up to discuss what the future holds for Neo4j as well as the broader graph database space. Sudhir Hasbe began his career as an engineer, but quickly transitioned into product […]
Read More →Redpanda’s “power to the data engineer” strategy lands a $100M Series C funding round
In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain. The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy. Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego shares how things work for the company. Back in early 2022, a $50 million Series […]
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