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At the US Open, IBM serves up AI-generated tennis commentary and draw analysis

Back in May, IBM doubled down on its AI efforts with the announcement at the company’s annual Think conference of its new Watsonx product platform, which provides a foundational model library that can be used to fine-tune pretrained models for enterprise application development. Now, the company is serving up what it hopes is a generative AI ace: For the first time, it is offering AI-generated…
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Sprig uses AI to transform product surveys into conversational data

Sprig, a five-year-old startup focused on creating smart, contextually aware in-app surveys for enterprises, earned a big vote of confidence last year, securing $30 million in funding from prominent venture capital firms including a16z and Accel. Today, the company is announcing where some of those funds went: A new feature Sprig calls AI Analysis for Surveys, which, as the name suggests, uses…
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Google brings new AI to AlloyDB and database migration service

At the Google Cloud Next conference today, Google will announce a series of AI-powered updates across its portfolio, including its database platforms. Among the AI focused database announcements is the introduction of AlloyDB AI, which brings vector embeddings to the PostgreSQL compatible cloud database. The new vector embeddings will also be part of the AlloyDB Omni service which is entering…
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Google shows off what’s next for Vertex AI, foundation models

AI is a core focus for Google, and at its Google Next event today, the company announced a series of updates across its portfolio that benefit from the power of generative AI. Front and center are enhancements and new capabilities across Google’s Vertex AI platform, including both developer tooling and foundation models. Google’s PaLM 2 large language model (LLM), first announced at the Google…
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