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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…
AI / Machine Learning
Edge Impulse wants to bring machine learning at the edge to everyone, announces $34M Series B funding
55.000 projects, 30.000 developers, $54M funding, and customers, including the likes of NASA, in a…
LinkedIn and Intel tech leaders on the state of AI
AI is on a roll. Adoption is increasing across the board, and organizations are already…
Nvidia doubles down on AI language models and inference as a substrate for the Metaverse, in data centers, the cloud and at the edge
At Nvidia’s GTC event today, CEO Jensen Huang made announcements the company claims have the…
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…
Data / Analytics / Data Science
Streamlit wants to revolutionize building machine learning and data science applications, scores $21 million Series A funding
Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases:…
Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding
Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. Being a pure-play open-source cloud-native…
Compute to data: using blockchain to decentralize data science and AI with the Ocean Protocol
The conflict between access to data and data sovereignty is key to understanding how AI…
Open source observability, meet data transformation: Grafana 7.0 promises to connect, unify, and visualize all your data
Grafana Labs sets the bar for open source observability with Grafana 7.0: more developer friendly,…
The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphs
A tour de force on progress in AI, by some of the world’s leading experts…
Graph explosion and consolidation. The Year of the Graph Newsletter, June 2019
With the knowledge graph space exploding on all accounts (interest, use cases, funding), centrifugal and…
Data.world joins forces with Capsenta to bring knowledge graph-based data management to the enterprise
Data.world has been expanding its footprint in the enterprise. The acqui-hiring of Capsenta complements its…
The Graph: An open-source query protocol for blockchains, using GraphQL
Querying blockchains is hard, but it does not have to be. This is the vision…
Knowledge Graphs are the new Black. The Year of the Graph Newsletter, May 2019
Knowledge graphs become a centerpiece of Accenture and Microsoft’s toolkits. Knowledge graph lessons from Google,…
Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up…
Innovation
Logz.io moves toward application observability in the cloud, raises questions on open source
Logz.io unveils its cloud offering for infrastructure monitoring based on open source platforms Elastic and…
Why autonomous vehicles will rely on edge computing and not the cloud
When driving a vehicle, milliseconds matter. Autonomous vehicles are no different, even though it may…
Is open source the way to go for observability? Grafana Labs scores $24M Series A funding to try to prove this
The best observability platforms today are open source, and it should be all about choice,…
Redis Labs goes Google Cloud, Graph, and other interesting places
Redis becomes available on Google Cloud Platform today, and we take the opportunity to explore…
Unifying cloud storage and data warehouses: Delta Lake project hosted by the Linux Foundation
A mix of open source foundations and commercial adoption, the strategy adopted by Databricks for…
The state of open source databases in 2019: Multiple Databases, Clouds, and Licenses
An extensive survey shows the attitude of the market towards open source databases, drivers and…
Other Topics
AI-powered DevOps is how CA wants to reinvent software development and itself
How does non-deterministic software sound? Making data-driven software to help make data-driven software may seem…
AWS Neptune going GA: The good, the bad, and the ugly for graph database users and vendors
It’s official: AWS has a production-ready graph database. What features are included today, and what…
Controversy, thy name is Europe: Open credit scores, data-driven counter-forensics, and the regulation debate
Europe’s biggest digital culture festival raises questions beyond the use of data. Europe’s SXSW: The…
Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe
The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and…
Healthcare’s $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?
How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is…
Is 5G the missing link for autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and a brave new world?
We may have hit peak 5G hype before 5G is actually available. But is 5G…