AI is pushing boundaries across industries, from healthcare to robotics
This September has quickly entered the business season and brought a number of interesting cases, as well as announcements on the market.
Vendor news
At Oracle CloudWorld, the company announced significant improvements to its AI, analytics, and Big Data offerings. Key updates include optimizations to the HeatWave MySQL and HeatWave GenAI products, which now support larger language models and advanced data analytics features such as OCR capabilities and faster data processing. This positions Oracle as a stronger competitor in the AI infrastructure space, making it easier for enterprises to integrate AI into their operations. These updates are aimed at improving the scalability of enterprise solutions across multiple cloud environments.All LLM developers are growing. Google (with its Gemini updates) and Meta (with LLAMA 3) are pushing the boundaries of what models can do. Smaller, more efficient models like Phi-3 and TinyLlama are also gaining traction, allowing AI solutions to be deployed in more resource-constrained environments. AI agents like GitHub’s Copilot and DevinAI are helping developers become more productive by automating parts of the coding process.
GitHub has launched its Accelerator 2024 group, featuring 11 innovative open-source AI projects. Highlights include unsloth AI, a platform that makes fine-tuning AI models faster and more efficient, and Nav2, a widely used robotics navigation system used by over 100 companies. These projects aim to push the boundaries of AI across industries from healthcare to robotics, demonstrating the power of open-source innovation.
Braze has introduced Project Catalyst, an AI-powered customer engagement platform. It uses AI to create personalized customer journeys by automating audience segmentation and analyzing customer data in real time. In this way, AI can improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy by delivering targeted and effective engagement across multiple digital platforms.
Microsoft has signed a five-year agreement with Synthetaic, a startup specializing in geospatial data analysis. Microsoft will provide about one million hours of cloud computing resources on Azure to improve Synthetaic’s AI tools that analyze satellite and aerial imagery for national security, emergency management, and environmental monitoring.
Lenovo introduced TruScale GPUaaS, an AI cloud service that gives companies scalable access to NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads. The service is designed to reduce costs and complexity for enterprises developing AI models by offering real-time workload management and resource optimization. It enables faster AI innovation in industries such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.