IBM has made the Mistral Large advanced large language model (LLM) available on IBM’s watsonx.ai enterprise tools platform for AI developers, expanding the collection of models accessible on watsonx.ai. With Mistral AI, watsonx.ai users gain a generative AI model optimized to handle complex enterprise tasks that require advanced reasoning and multilingual capabilities, IBM said. These…
WebSockets is a network communication protocol that enables two-way client-server communication. WebSockets are often used for applications that require instantaneous updates, using a persistent duplex channel atop HTTP to support real-time interactions without constant connection negotiation. Server push is one of the many popular use cases for WebSockets. This article takes a code-first look at…
The Biden Administration on Tuesday issued an AI report in which it said it would not be “immediately restricting the wide availability of open model weights [numerical parameters that help determine a model’s response to inputs] in the largest AI systems,” but it stressed that it might change that position at an unspecified point. The…
Though generative AI is relatively new compared with other artificial intelligence technologies, it is already being used to support tasks ranging from vetting job applicants to diagnosing and recommending treatments for illnesses. IDC predicts that by 2028, 80% of chief information officers will rely on generative AI tools to accelerate analysis, boost decision-making, improve customer…
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has officially released Postgres 17, marking another milestone for the community, developers, and EDB, the leading contributor to PostgreSQL code. As the reigning DB-Engines database of the year and the most desired and admired database according to the 2024 Stack Overflow developer survey, Postgres continues to cement its status as…
Microsoft is previewing packages geared to integrating generative AI services into .NET applications. Called Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions and Microsoft.Extensions.AI libraries, the packages are available in preview as of October 8. The packages are described as unified AI building blocks for .NET. The Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions and Microsoft.Extensions.AI packages provide the .NET ecosystem with essential abstractions for integrating AI services…
Ateken Abla August 14, 2024 – 8:27pm Sam Priddy Sr. Data Skills Program Manager, Tableau We’ve all been there: You’re talking with a friend, watching the news, or sitting in a meeting and the conversation turns to data. You’re not quite sure how to read it, or what to make of it, no one wants…
Systematic data management investment and effort is associated with outsized returns on data-driven initiatives, according to a newly released report on DataOps from BMC Software. Further, large amounts of organizational data frequently remain underutilized for insights due to challenges with active data management, the report states. Released July 24, the report, titled “Putting the ‘Ops’…
The world is a messy place. Buildings rise. Buildings fall. Roads wash out. Homeowners add cottages to properties. One location becomes home to two businesses. Roadside business stands spring up in the morning and disappear at night, but still need deliveries and maybe even electricity. How to track it all? To date, the best mapping…
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of October 25, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines…
