Tag: Generative AI
“What they have had in place today—the technology, the chips, the platforms, the software, the integrated platform—and what they’re building, is quite impressive to say the least. That’s creating an incredible opportunity for Nvidia, but also Nvidia partners,” says WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh. Jim Kavanaugh, the longtime CEO and technology guru of $20 billion IT…
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‘With an agent over the phone, it removes the need for the text-based chat of interacting with an AI. It makes it so any business can get started using AI without huge infrastructure or process changes,’ says Jimmy Hatzell, co-founder and CEO of Hatz AI. Startup AI-as-a-Service company Hatz AI has launched its Adel AI…
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As part of the annual Tech Innovator Awards evaluation process CRN selects a number of the applicants as finalists. Here’s a look at the innovative products that have made the first round of the judging. Innovation Surge The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in the last two years has shaken up…
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From the shocking exit of CEO Adam Selipsky to pouring tens of billions of dollars into cloud infrastructure to fuel its AI future, news stories coming out of the world’s largest cloud computing company have been non-stop in 2024. Amazon Web Services also hit some significant milestones in 2024 that grabbed the IT world’s attention,…
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‘In SoftBank, we have a partner that can enable the Graphcore team to redefine the landscape for AI technology,’ Graphcore co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon says of the acquisition. Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group has acquired AI chip designer Graphcore as part of what it called its “journey” to artificial general intelligence, or AGI for…
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Here’s a look at 10 open-source software tools – many for building AI applications or managing huge volumes of data – that are either already widely used or are gaining in popularity. A Software Free-For-All Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and…
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‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…
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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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‘This workforce reduction is aimed at further driving operational efficiency and customer centricity,’ according to a UiPath regulatory filing. About a month after changing CEOs, business automation platform provider UiPath revealed plans to cut 10 percent of its employee base – about 4,200 employees. The New York-based vendor said in a regulatory filing that most…
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As part of its efforts to challenge Nvidia, the chip designer says its $665 million acquisition of European AI lab and open-source large language model developer Silo AI will help enterprises develop and deploy AI solutions faster and more effectively. AMD has reached a deal to acquire Silo AI, which it called the largest private…
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