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Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly

November 21, 2024
Soon after announcing its earnings for the third quarter of FY25, Snowflake dropped a bombshell: It is teaming up with leading AI vendor Anthropic to further advance AI projects for its customers. The data ecosystem giant has signed a multi-year strategic agreement, bringing Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 family of models to its core platform on AWS. The move will allow enterprises using Snowflake to…
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Microsoft’s new AI agents support 1,800 models (and counting)

November 20, 2024
AI agents are the talk of the enterprise right now. But, business leaders want to hear about tangible results and relevant use cases — as opposed to futuristic, not-quite-there-yet scenarios — and demand tools that are easy to deploy and use and, further, that support their preferred model(s). Microsoft claims to have all these concerns covered with new no-code and low-code capabilities in…
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Microsoft launches Azure AI Foundry with agent orchestration, management tools

November 20, 2024
Microsoft introduced AI agents to its Dynamics 365 platform in October. During Ignite, the company announced it would add more agentic AI capabilities to other Microsoft products, such as SharePoint and Microsoft Copilot 365. However, enterprises will need to manage the many AI agents they deploy and understand whether these agents accurately follow workflows and can only access what they are…
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Why AI won’t make you a better writer

November 15, 2024
The literary world is rife with constant controversy, from the Bad Art Friend to the BookForum comeuppance of long-lauded critic Lauren Oyler. A recent point of contention, however, is no interpersonal drama or nitpicky review. Rather, it’s a Zendesk article from the…
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Snowflake Build: the 4 biggest announcements on Cortex AI and more

November 15, 2024
At this year’s annual BUILD conference, data architecture giant Snowflake went all in to give its customers advanced capabilities, including some long-previewed features, to easily mobilize their datasets to build and share powerful AI applications. The company debuted new tools for Cortex AI, its fully managed offering for developing conversational AI apps grounded in enterprise data hosted on…
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