GUEST OPINION: The IT world is currently in the middle of an ‘AI rush,’ and we have just been hit by a new wave with the launch of DeepSeek, an open-source AI-powered chatbot that claims to rival OpenAI’s architecture. With any new artificial intelligence innovation, we must also discuss its potential data privacy impact. Coming off the recent Data Privacy Day, now is the time to take a closer look at the potential of this new AI tool and its related data protection considerations.
Today, GitLab announced the general availability of GitLab Duo Self-Hosted. This capability enables organisations to maintain full control over data privacy, security, and the deployment of large language models (LLMs) in their own infrastructure.
Snowflake has today announced it has expanded its AI capabilities with the public preview of Cortex Agents, streamlining agentic app data access across structured and unstructured data. Cortex Agents leverages Anthropic Claude as a key LLM powering agentic text-to-SQL for high-quality structured data retrieval.
The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest and most intelligent model in the Claude model family from artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research company Anthropic, is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. To learn more about this announcement, please join us at our upcoming Data & AI Day Roadshow in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.
Teradata VantageCloud customers on AWS can immediately start implementing Gen AI use cases to fast-track business value and accelerate ROI
New partners Anthropic, Google Cloud, and Snowflake join Cloudera’s AI Ecosystem at EVOLVE24 New York event
Ecosystem of technology providers makes it easier, more economical, and safer for enterprises to maximise the value of AI initiatives
COMPANY NEWS: Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, has announced the expansion of its Enterprise AI Ecosystem during its annual data and AI conference, EVOLVE24 New York. This initiative brings together a diverse group of industry-leading AI providers to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end AI solutions for customers that help to maximise the value of AI.
A month after it invested in search engine startup Perplexity, Korean telco SK Telecom (SKT) is investing again to the tune of US$200 million in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure business Smart Global Holdings (SGH).
COMPANY NEWS: Sysdig, a leading provider of cloud security driven by real-time insights, has unveiled AI Workload Security, a new capability aimed at identifying and managing active risks associated with AI environments. This addition to Sysdig's cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is tailored to empower security teams to gain visibility into their AI workloads, spot suspicious activity in real time, and ensure compliance with emerging AI guidelines.
US-based telco vendor Aira Technologies claimed it has developed RanGPT, a capability that allows mobile network operators (MNOs) to leverage conversational AI to query and control RAN.
Database vendor MongoDB's Australian-developed MongoDB Relational Migrator is now generally available. The company made several other announcements at its developer conference, so please keep reading.