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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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Edge data is critical to AI — here’s how Dell is helping enterprises unlock its value

November 14, 2024
It’s anticipated that by next year, more than 50% of enterprise data will be created and processed outside traditional data centers or clouds. In this age of AI, enterprises need to be able to quickly access and extract value from that edge data — but it can be time-consuming and complicated to do so, and many enterprise leaders are still operating with a cloud mindset. To help reduce…
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Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free

November 13, 2024
Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2.5-Coder, a new AI coding assistant that has already become the second most popular demo on Hugging Face Spaces. Early tests suggest its performance rivals GPT-4o, and it’s available to developers at no cost. The release includes six model variants, from 0.5 billion to 32 billion parameters, making advanced AI coding accessible to developers with different…
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ByteDance’s AI can make your photos act out movie scenes — but is it too real?

November 12, 2024
ByteDance has unveiled an artificial intelligence system that can transform any photograph into a convincing video performance, complete with subtle expressions and emotional depth that rival real footage. The Chinese technology giant, known for TikTok, designed its “X-Portrait 2” system to make still images mirror scenes from famous movies — with results so realistic they blur the line…
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