Heard on the Street – 3/28/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Intel Gaudi 2 Remains Only Benchmarked Alternative to NV H100 for GenAI Performance

Newest MLPerf results for Intel Gaudi 2 accelerator and 5th Gen Intel Xeon demonstrate how Intel is raising the bar for generative AI performance across its portfolio and with its ecosystem partners.

New Research Highlights GenAI as an Increasing Priority for Analytics Community

insightsoftware, the comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, released Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024, a research report in partnership with Hanover Research uncovering the embedded analytics priorities, trends, and challenges of modern developer teams.

NEC Develops Marketing Strategy Planning & Effectiveness Simulation Technology Using Generative AI

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed a marketing strategy planning & effectiveness simulation technology that utilizes generative AI to identify latent needs of customers and generate optimal measures. According to an NEC survey, this is the world’s first technology that can automatically visualize customer interests and preferences (i.e. psychograhic attributes), generate measures, and predict customer responses to those measures. NEC aims to launch services with this technology in 2024

MongoDB Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024

Our friends over at MongoDB have prepared a special set of compelling technology predictions for the year ahead. MongoDB team’s predictions for the upcoming year cover topics including AI, diversity in tech, security, cloud, and more..

Beyond Tech Hype: A Practical Guide to Harnessing LLMs for Positive Change

In this contributed article, Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov who leads the Data Advocates team at Toloka believes that whether it’s breaking down language silos, aiding education in underserved regions, or facilitating cross-cultural communication, LLMs have altered the way we interact with information –enhance human well-being by improving healthcare, education, and social services.

The Data Disconnect: A Key Challenge for Machine Learning Deployment

This article is excerpted from the book, “The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment,” by Eric Siegel, Ph.D., with permission from the publisher, MIT Press. It is a product of the author’s work while he held a one-year position as the Bodily Bicentennial Professor in Analytics at the UVA Darden School of Business. 

Video Highlights: Open-Source LLM Libraries and Techniques — with Dr. Sebastian Raschka

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, sits down with industry luminary Sebastian Raschka to discuss his latest book, Machine Learning Q and AI, the open-source libraries developed by Lightning AI, how to exploit the greatest opportunities for LLM development, and what’s on the horizon for LLMs.

AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

GTC—Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform—unveiled by NVIDIA at GTC 2024—is coming to AWS. AWS will offer the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and B100 Tensor Core GPUs, extending the companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to deliver the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to help customers unlock new generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search

Kinetica, the real-time GPU-accelerated database for analytics and generative AI, unveiled at NVIDIA GTC its real-time vector similarity search engine that can ingest vector embeddings 5X faster than the previous market leader, based on the popular VectorDBBench benchmark.