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Data and AI operations startup Coiled nabs $21M

May 18, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Coiled, a DataOps and AIOps platform that seeks to increase access to scalable computing, today announced that it raised $21 million in series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Alongside the financing, Coiled unveiled Coiled Cloud, which lets data scientists build machine learning models using Python tools on a…
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SAS flexes AI ambitions with Viya platform expansion

May 18, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During its Virtual SAS Global Forum 2021 event, SAS today announced an expansion for its SAS Viya platform, which is used for analyzing data and building AI models. The platform will now be available…
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JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Games raises $40M for games we play and watch

May 18, 2021
Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Bad Robot Games, the game division of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot entertainment company, has raised more than $40 million to build games that are “as compelling to watch as they are to play.” Galaxy Interactive led the round, with participation from existing investors Horizons Ventures, Iconiq Capital, and Tencent. The financing follows…
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Google demos LaMDA, a next-generation AI for dialogue

May 18, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During a keynote address at Google I/O 2021, Google’s annual developer conference, the company announced LaMDA, a sophisticated language model that Google says is far better at understanding the…
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Google details new AI accelerator chips

May 18, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At Google I/O 2021, Google today formally announced its fourth-generation tensor processing units (TPUs), which the company claims can complete AI and machine learning training workloads in…
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Provectus CTO on how enterprises can boost AI implementation

May 17, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Provectus is an IT systems integration and consulting firm that specializes in one thing only: AI. Most recently, the company announced a partnership with Tecton, which provides a feature store for building AI models that’s based on open source Feast software. Under terms of that alliance, Provectus will focus on…
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4 of the worst ways to use AI

May 16, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. As the pandemic further accelerates our digital transformation, companies are relying even more on automation and particularly on artificial intelligence. Two-thirds of CEOs surveyed last year by a…
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How AIOps can benefit businesses

May 16, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. “AIOps,” which stands for “AI for IT operations,” refers to the way data and information from a dev environment is managed by an IT team — in this case, using AI. AIOps platforms leverage…
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What the vaccine rollout can teach us about big data and AI

May 15, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. I’ve spent my entire career looking at data and the world through a scientific lens. Perhaps that’s why when observing the vaccine rollout, I discovered some interesting connections between the challenges governments and scientists have overcome and those most enterprise companies face. When considering this…
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