As generative AI continues to surge in popularity, we are already seeing it evolve into the next generation of machine-learning-driven technology: agentic AI. With agentic AI, we are not just prompting models and receiving an answer in a simple one-step process. The AI is engaging in complex multi-step processes, often interacting with different systems to…
Generative AI has inspired a surge of interest in using data to improve the accuracy of business decisions. Business managers, data analysts, and citizen data scientists can now use prompts instead of SQL queries to ask questions, interact with large language models rather than dashboards, and scan ML-generated recommendations instead of exploring data for insights….
To the surprise of probably no one, Python has won the Tiobe programming language of the year award for 2024, given to the language with the highest increase in ratings in Tiobe’s index of language popularity during the year. In a post accompanying the January index, Paul Jansen, CEO of software quality services provider Tiobe,…
It’s perhaps not a surprise, but demand for AI-related skills has soared, according to technology educator O’Reilly, which just released its annual technology trends report. By contrast, interest in programming languages Python and Java has taken a bit of a nosedive, the company reports. The O’Reilly Technology Trends for 2025 report, released January 6, examines…
2024 was a year filled with AI possibilities; 2025 needs to turn those possibilities into realities. For that, we need the cloud companies to stop churning out “primitives” such as large language models (LLMs) and instead give developers solutions. In mid-2024 I suggested we need a “Red Hat for AI,” a company that can deliver…
Over the last year, we’ve seen an explosion in innovation in time-series forecasting. Along with new statistical models, transformer-based approaches have allowed for the creation of zero-shot foundation models from well-known organizations such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft and from companies specializing in time-series forecasting such as Nixtla. The pre-trained models make time-series forecasting more…
Over the past two years, generative AI has been a force for transformation—and disruption—everywhere it’s landed. Education was no exception; if anything, schools were among the first institutions to grapple with AI’s implications. As students embraced ChatGPT and similar AI technologies for research, test preparation, and academic writing assistance, among other things, educators found themselves…
In a data-driven world, financial services organizations are racing to harness the transformative power of AI. However, this journey is not without challenges. We know AI has a data problem. Without the right data in the right place, even the most sophisticated AI strategies fall short. IT leaders in the financial services sector understand that…
We live in a world of big data and big compute. But what about big query engines? One of the startups developing software to keep up with big data and big compute is Voltron Data, which is headed by Josh Patterson. Patterson co-founded Voltron Data in 2021 with pandas creator Wes McKinney (a 2018 Person…
The perfect storm is coming that will force enterprises to rethink their cloud strategy. Cloud architecture will take center stage during 2025. This isn’t just another hype cycle. First, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: generative AI. The computational demands of running generative AI models make traditional cloud deployments look like…
