Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform. Together, Databricks and MosaicML will make generative AI accessible for every organization, enabling them to build, own and secure generative AI models with their own data. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.3 billion, inclusive of retention packages.
Databricks Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform
Databricks Data Reports Shows How 9,000+ Global Companies are Gearing Up to Be Competitive on AI
Data + AI company Databricks has published the 2023 State of Data + AI report, examining patterns and trends in AI adoption across more than 9,000 global companies that use the platform as a foundation for their data efforts. The report paints a pretty clear picture on how enterprises are preparing to stay competitive in this new age of generative AI, with data to support how companies are embracing LLMs and what the fastest growing data and AI tools out there are.
Databricks Launches Simplified Real-Time Machine Learning for the Lakehouse
Databricks, the lakehouse company, announced the launch of Databricks Model Serving to provide simplified production machine learning (ML) natively within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Model Serving removes the complexity of building and maintaining complicated infrastructure for intelligent applications. Now, organizations can leverage the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to integrate real-time machine learning systems across their business, from personalized recommendations to customer service chatbots, without the need to configure and manage the underlying infrastructure.
Deci delivers breakthrough inference performance on Intel’s 4th Gen Sapphire Rapids CPU
Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI, announced a breakthrough performance on Intel’s newly released 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids. By optimizing the AI models which run on Intel’s new hardware, Deci enables AI developers to achieve GPU-like inference performance on CPUs in production for both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.
Video Highlights: Modernize your IBM Mainframe & Netezza With Databricks Lakehouse
In the video presentation below, learn from experts how to architect modern data pipelines to consolidate data from multiple IBM data sources into Databricks Lakehouse, using the state-of-the-art replication technique—Change Data Capture (CDC).
Cloudera Continues Rapid Pace of Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse Innovation to Extend Data Management Leadership
Cloudera, the hybrid data company, announced new hybrid data capabilities that enable organizations to more efficiently move data, metadata, data workloads and data applications across clouds and on premises to optimize for performance, cost and security. Cloudera’s portable data services enable simple, low-risk data workload and data application movement for ultimate data lakehouse optionality.
CIOs Say Data Management is Critical for Successful AI Adoption in New Global Research Report
A new survey report by MIT Technology Review Insights highlights AI and data management as essential pillars to enterprise success, but found that the majority of survey respondents cited data mismanagement as a critical factor that could jeopardize their company’s future AI success. The report, “CIO vision 2025: Bridging the gap between BI and AI,” was conducted in May and June 2022 in association with Databricks, pioneer of the lakehouse architecture.
Research Highlights: Interactive continual learning for robots: a neuromorphicapproach
In this regular column we take a look at highlights for breaking research topics of the day in the areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. For data scientists, it’s important to keep connected with the research arm of the field in order to understand where the technology is headed. Enjoy!
Cloudera Launches All-in-One Data Lakehouse Cloud Service
Cloudera, the hybrid data company, announced the launch of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) One, an all-in-one data lakehouse software as a service (SaaS) offering that enables fast and easy self-service analytics and exploratory data science on any type of data. A simple yet powerful cloud service, only CDP One has built-in enterprise security and machine learning (ML) that requires zero cloud, security or monitoring operations staff for lower TCO and reduced risk.
New Accenture Research on Responsible AI Reveals How Organizations Can Prepare for Impending Regulation
New research from Accenture shows that almost all (97%) respondents companies believe that regulation will impact them to some extent. And 95% believe that at least part of their business will be affected by EU regulations specifically. But only 6% are fully prepared to accommodate near-term and ongoing regulatory changes.