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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
Two-Thirds of Organizations Already Using GenAI, O’Reilly Says
November 24th, 2023
Large language and image AI models, also referred to as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), have been the big story of 2023. It has opened a new set of opportunities for professionals and businesses. While most businesses acknowledge the potential ...
Altman Returns Amid Swirl of Questions About Project Q-Star
November 24th, 2023
Sam Altman’s wild weekend had a happy ending, as he reclaimed his CEO position at OpenAI earlier this week. But questions over the whole ordeal remain as rumors of a powerful new AI capability developed at OpenAI called Project ...
Unlocking Metrics for Black Box LLMs
November 15th, 2023
AI’s black box problem has been building ever since deep learning models started gaining traction about 10 years ago. But now that we’re in the post-ChatGPT era, the black box fears of 2022 seem quaint to Shayan Mohanty, co-founder ...
Will GenAI Take Traditional AI Along for the Ride?
November 15th, 2023
Nearly a year after the launch of ChatGPT, companies now are falling over themselves in a rush to adopt generative AI to gain a new competitive advantage or prevent competitors from doing the same. But what about traditional forms ...
ChaosSearch Tackles Live Search, SQL, and Gen AI Analytics with LakeDB
October 18th, 2023
ChaosSearch, a leading log analytics platform, last week announced the release of Chaos LakeDB – the first data lake database designed to power generative artificial intelligence (AI), SQL, and Live Search. Chaos LakeDB is available as a SaaS data ...
Alluxio Claims 4X GPU Speed Boost for AI Training
October 18th, 2023
Customers that use the high-speed cache in the new Alluxio Enterprise AI platform can squeeze up to four times as much work out of their GPU setups than without it, Alluxio announced today. Alluxio also says the overall model ...
Alation Adds GenAI to Data Catalog
October 13th, 2023
Alation is rolling out a new offering dubbed ALLIE AI that’s aimed at helping data stewards better organize data when it’s being ingested into the company, as well as to streamline and simplify how customers ultimately find what they’re ...
Anyscale and Nvidia In LLM Hookup
September 20th, 2023
GenAI developers building atop large language models (LLMs) are the big winners of a new partnership between Anyscale and Nvidia unveiled this week that will see the GPU maker’s AI software integrated into Anyscale’s computing platform. Anyscale is best known ...
Databricks Raises $500 Million in Pre-IPO Round
September 14th, 2023
Databricks hasn’t gone public yet–the market just hasn’t been right this year for that–but it did the next best thing today when it raised $500 million in a growth round of funding. The Series I round included investments by ...
GenAI Adoption, By the Numbers
September 13th, 2023
As the freight train that is generative AI continues barreling down the track to an uncertain destination, we thought it would be good to take some time to stop and ponder where we’re currently at in terms of GenAI ...
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