You.com raises $50M to lead AI for Knowledge Workers
You.com showcases the state of AI today By George Anadiotis The story of you.com is multi-faceted and telling in many ways. You.com was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, one of the leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) researchers in the world, to offer a better search experience to users and compete with Google. With a startup […]
Read More →Democratizing data with Graph RAG: What it is, What it can do, How to evaluate it
What is Graph RAG, what can it do, and how do you evaluate it? By George Anadiotis Are you interested in making your data more accessible? A rhetorical question indeed. Even if you are well-versed in dark arts such as databases, data modeling, data science and information retrieval, why would you not want to make data […]
Read More →Evaluating and building applications on open source large language models
How do you choose the most appropriate model for your application? An analysis on evaluating and building applications on open source large language models. By George Anadiotis The computational complexity of AI models is growing exponentially, while the compute capability provided by hardware is growing linearly. Therefore, there is a growing gap between those two numbers, […]
Read More →The future of AI chips: Leaders, dark horses and rising stars
The future of AI chips is about more than NVIDIA: AMD, Intel, chiplets, upstarts, analog AI, optical computing, and AI chips designed by AI. By George Anadiotis The interest and investment in AI is skyrocketing, and generative AI is fueling it. Over one-third of CxOs have reportedly already embraced GenAI in their operations, with nearly half […]
Read More →Data management in 2024. Open data formats and a common language for a sixth data platform
What data management in 2024 and beyond will look like hangs on one question. Can open data formats lead to a best-of-breed data management platform? It will take Interoperability across clouds and formats, as well as on the semantics and governance layer. By George Anadiotis Sixth Platform. Atlas. Debezium. DCAT. Egeria. Nessie. Mesh. Paimon. Transmogrification. This […]
Read More →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 →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 →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 […]
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