The era of AI agents has officially arrived, and Microsoft is leading the charge. At Ignite, the company made bold claims about its advancements in enterprise AI, including 100,000 organizations already deploying or editing AI agents. These announcements suggest Microsoft is about to disrupt how enterprises approach automation, as well as startups competing in this space.
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Nvidia it is working with Google Quantum AI to accelerate the design of its next-generation quantum computing devices using simulations powered by Nvidia.
Google Quantum AI is using the hybrid quantum-classical computing platform and the Nvidia Eos supercomputer to simulate…
DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance
November 21, 2024
DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management focused on releasing high-performance open-source tech, has unveiled the R1-Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model (LLM), available for now exclusively through…
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…
OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research
November 21, 2024
Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle to stay updated on the latest findings in their fields.A new artificial intelligence system, called OpenScholar, is promising to rewrite the rules…
For years, enterprise companies have been plagued by data silos separating transactional systems from analytical tools—a divide that has hampered AI applications, slowed real-time decision-making, and driven up costs with complex integrations. Today at its Ignite…
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…
As generative AI usage has grown dramatically in the last several years, vector databases have evolved from cutting-edge technology to essential enterprise infrastructure.
With vector databases becoming more crucial, enterprises are taking an ever closer look at performance…
There is a lot of hype and a lot of promise surrounding AI and what it can bring to an enterprise. For enterprise software vendor OpenText, moving beyond the hype to be able to actually demonstrate the value of AI is now an everyday mission.
Today, OpenText announced its…
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…
