AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management.
However, AWS continues to face competition from Google and Microsoft, which also offer many features that help accelerate AI training and…
Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring
June 26, 2025
When building enterprise AI, some companies are finding the hardest part is sometimes deciding what to build and how to address the various processes involved. Organizations are dealing with the pain of thinking through how tech intersects with people, processes and design…
Over the last 100 years, IBM has seen many different tech trends rise and fall. What tends to win out are technologies where there is choice. At VB Transform 2025 today, Armand Ruiz, VP of AI Platform at IBM detailed how Big Blue is thinking about generative AI and how its…
Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replaces
June 6, 2025
Solidroad, an artificial intelligence startup that promises to solve one of customer service’s most persistent problems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform that automatically trains customer service representatives and improves AI agents.
The Dublin-founded company, led by First Round Capital with participation from Y Combinator, addresses a fundamental challenge…
Enterprises need to know if the models that power their applications and agents work in real-life scenarios. This type of evaluation can sometimes be complex because it is hard to predict specific scenarios. A revamped version of the RewardBench benchmark looks to give…
As AI advances toward expanded capabilities, knowledge workers are confronting not just job loss, but the deeper question of what makes them matter.
Fortune published the story of a 42-year-old software engineer with a computer science degree whose purpose has unraveled. He…
Beyond single-model AI: How architectural design drives reliable multi-agent orchestration
May 26, 2025
We’re seeing AI evolve fast. It’s no longer just about building a single, super-smart model. The real power, and the exciting frontier, lies in getting multiple specialized AI agents to work together. Think of them as a team of expert colleagues, each with their own skills — one analyzes data, another interacts with customers, a third manages logistics, and so on. Getting this team to…
Lightricks, the company behind popular creative apps like Facetune and VideoLeap, announced today the release of its most powerful AI video generation model to date. The LTX Video 13-billion-parameter model (LTXV-13B) generates high-quality AI video up to 30 times faster…
In my first stint as a machine learning (ML) product manager, a simple question inspired passionate debates across functions and leaders: How do we know if this product is actually working? The product in question that I managed catered to both internal and external…
Databricks is tackling the challenge of AI model performance by addressing the critical issue of data labeling. While labeled data has long been essential for training AI models, enterprises often face a significant bottleneck—not in technology, but in the lengthy process of collecting, curating, and labeling domain-specific data. This “data labeling tax” forces technical leaders to either…
