Pinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding
Machine learning applications understand the world through vectors. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors, has secured significant investment from the people who brought Snowflake to the world. Could this be the next big thing?
Read More →2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect
AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological progress and adoption
Read More →2021 technology trend review, part one: Blockchain, cloud, open source
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Blockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade.
Read More →From data to knowledge and AI via graphs: Technology to support a knowledge-based economy
In the new knowledge-based digital world, encoding and making use of business and operational knowledge is the key to making progress and staying competitive. Here's a shortlist of technologies and processes that can support this transition, and what they are about.
Read More →Lightning-fast Python for 100x faster performance from Saturn Cloud, now available on Snowflake
Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs. Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses
Read More →Trailblaizing end-to-end AI application development for the edge: Blaize releases AI Studio
You might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip company. Blaize is now boldly going where none of its ilk has gone before, releasing a software development product. And that's not the only reason AI Studio is interesting
Read More →Meet Stargate, DataStax’s GraphQL for databases. First stop – Cassandra
A flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Cassandra was lacking in that department, and DataStax is trying to address this with the release of a new API layer called Stargate.
Read More →Getting there: Structured data, semantics, robotics, and the future of AI
Leveraging structure in data is key to making progress in AI, says AI prodigy Gary Marcus. A forward-looking view on Software 2.0, AI chips, robotics, and the future of AI
Read More →Graphs and Knowledge Connexions. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 22, Autumn 2020
As 2020 is coming to an end, let’s see it off in style. Our journey in the world of Graph Analytics, Graph Databases, Knowledge Graphs and Graph AI culminates in Knowledge Connexions. The representation of the relationships among data, information, knowledge and –ultimately– wisdom, known as the data pyramid, has long been part of the […]
Read More →Rebooting AI: Deep learning, meet knowledge graphs
Gary Marcus, a prominent figure in AI, is on a mission to instill a breath of fresh air to a discipline he sees as in danger of stagnating. Knowledge graphs, the 20-year old hype, may have something to offer there.
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