The State of AI in 2021: Language models, healthcare, ethics, and AI agnosticism

Takeaways from an action-packed 2021 for AI: Healthcare is just getting started with its AI moment, bigger language models mean bigger complications, and there may now be a third pole for AGI.
Read More →The state of AI in 2021: Machine learning in production, MLOps and data-centric AI

With lessons learned from operationalizing AI, the emphasis is shifting from shiny new models to perhaps more mundane, but practical aspects such as data quality and data pipeline management
Read More →Open source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction

Appwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to capitalize on its grass-roots popularity
Read More →An AI-powered revenue operating system for aviation and beyond: FLYR Labs Lands $150 Million in Series C Funding

A multi-trillion dollar business in crisis, upending incumbents, unfettered ambition, and pragmatic deep learning. FLYR's story has it all.
Read More →Apollo GraphQL announces $130 Million Series D Funding, wants to define its own category

GraphQL is a specification that came at just the right time to address an age-old issue in software engineering: service integration. Apollo's implementation is seeing lots of traction, and it just got more gas in the tank for its grand vision that goes well beyond integration
Read More →Open-source growth and venture capital investment: Data, databases, challenges, and opportunities

Open-source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it's often approached in a biased way. A new generation of investment funds goes to show that things are changing.
Read More →More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess

Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It's a data terminology mess out there. Let's try and untangle it, because there's more to words than lingo.
Read More →The biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j

A $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion. A social network of 3 billion people, distributed across 1000 servers. The latter is a demo; the former is not. But both are real signs that the graph market and Neo4j are getting huge.
Read More →Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big

Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking a multi-billion dollar market. TinyML is the art and science of producing machine learning models frugal enough to work at the edge, and it's seeing rapid growth.
Read More →Graphs as a foundational technology stack: Analytics, AI, and hardware

How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic — which also happens to be your line of business — grow 1,000% in just two years’ time? Vindicated, overjoyed, and a bit overstretched in trying to keep up with demand, probably.
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