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.
insideBIGDATA Latest News – 3/29/2023
In this regular column, we’ll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning. Our industry is constantly accelerating with new products and services being announced everyday. Fortunately, we’re in close touch with vendors from this vast ecosystem, so we’re in a unique position to inform you about all that’s new and exciting. Our massive industry database is growing all the time so stay tuned for the latest news items describing technology that may make you and your organization more competitive.
How We Use Synthetic Data to Improve Performance and Break Away from Dataset Constraints
In this contributed article, Jan Lunter, CEO & CTO of Innovatrics, highlights how synthetic data is an efficient technology to supplement datasets with types of data that are underrepresented. The advancements made in recent years in generative adversarial networks (GANs) allow us to leverage the benefits of generating synthetic data for a wide range of machine learning (ML) applications.
NVIDIA Launches Inference Platforms for Large Language Models and Generative AI Workloads
NVIDIA launched four inference platforms optimized for a diverse set of rapidly emerging generative AI applications — helping developers quickly build specialized, AI-powered applications that can deliver new services and insights. The platforms combine NVIDIA’s full stack of inference software with the latest NVIDIA Ada, NVIDIA Hopper™ and NVIDIA Grace Hopper™ processors — including the NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPU and the NVIDIA H100 NVL GPU, both launched at GTC.
Domino Data Lab Makes Cutting-Edge AI Accessible to All Enterprises
Domino Data Lab, provider of a leading Enterprise MLOps platform trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100, today at NVIDIA’s GTC, a global conference on AI and the Metaverse, announced powerful new updates giving every enterprise access to cutting-edge open-source tools and techniques to achieve AI value sooner.
NVIDIA Hopper GPUs Expand Reach as Demand for AI Grows
NVIDIA and key partners today announced the availability of new products and services featuring the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU — the powerful GPU for AI — to address rapidly growing demand for generative AI training and inference.
Heard on the Street – 3/20/2023
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.
Lightning AI Releases PyTorch Lightning 2.0 and a New Open Source Library for Lightweight Scaling of Machine Learning Models
Lightning AI, the company accelerating the development of an AI-powered world, today announced the general availability of PyTorch Lightning 2.0, the company’s flagship open source AI framework used by more than 10,000 organizations to quickly and cost-efficiently train and scale machine learning models. The new release introduces a stable API, offers a host of powerful features with a smaller footprint, and is easier to read and debug.
Data Science Bows Before Prompt Engineering and Few Shot Learning
In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper takes a new look at the GPT phenomenon by exploring how prompt engineering (stores, databases) coupled with few shot learning can constitute a significant adjunct to traditional data science.
Video Highlights: Copilot for R
Our video highlights selection for today is by data science industry luminary David Smith who made a presentation to the NYC Data Hackers on the topic of Copilot for R. If you haven’t come across Copilot before, it’s like an AI-based pair programmer that suggests new lines of code, and perhaps entire functions, based on context.