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Confluent launches new initiative to deliver fresh, real-time data streams for enterprise AI apps

September 27, 2023
Data streaming major Confluent today announced a new “Data Streaming for AI” initiative to provide native integrations with leading players in the AI and vector database space, allowing its customers to tap the freshest contextual data from across their businesses. Such realtime data is vital for use cases where speed is of the essence in business processes, such as fraud detection. The first…
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Vectara grounds AI accuracy with Boomerang vector embedding

September 27, 2023
The issue of AI hallucinations is a big challenge when it comes to enterprise AI adoption. After all, no organization wants to generate inaccurate results from generative AI efforts. Among the many organizations looking to solve the problem of AI hallucination is Vectara, which first emerged from stealth in October 2022, led by one of the co-founders of Big Data vendor Cloudera. In May, the…
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The top U.S. cities for AI-driven job hunters

September 27, 2023
Nearly half of the generative AI job postings in the past year were for roles in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle. These six AI hotspots have been identified by the Brookings Institution, which also found that San Francisco is home to 20 of the best-funded AI companies, a figure that’s more than the rest of the U.S. combined. California is home to 35 of…
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SAP launches its own enterprise AI assistant: meet Joule

September 27, 2023
Not content to let Microsoft and Amazon hog the spotlight when it comes to new AI assistants, German enterprise giant SAP today announced a new AI assistant for its enterprise customers called “Joule,” that it hopes will “power the outcomes of humans and businesses,”…
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Enterprise workers gain 40 percent performance boost from GPT-4, Harvard study finds

September 26, 2023
A Harvard-led study has found that using generative AI helped hundreds of consultants working for the respected Boston Consulting Group (BSG) complete a range of tasks more often, more quickly, and at a higher quality than those who did not use AI. Moreover, it showed that the lowest performers among the group had the biggest gains when using generative AI. The study, conducted by data scientists…
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