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

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.

The Essential Role of Clean Data in Unleashing the Power of AI 

In this contributed article, Stephanie Wong, Director of Data and Technology Consulting at DataGPT, highlights how in the fast-paced world of business, the pursuit of immediate growth can often overshadow the essential task of maintaining clean, consolidated data sets. With AI technology, the importance of data hygiene becomes even more apparent, as language models heavily rely on it.

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.

Heard on the Street – 3/21/2024

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.

Cloudera and NVIDIA Collaborate to Expand Generative AI Capabilities with NVIDIA Microservices

Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, today announced its expanded collaboration with NVIDIA. Cloudera Powered by NVIDIA will integrate enterprise-grade NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, into Cloudera Machine Learning, a Cloudera Data Platform service for AI/ML workflows, to deliver fast, secure, and simplified end-to-end generative AI workflows in production. 

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

DDN®, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing

GTC 2024—Powering a new era of computing, NVIDIA announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell platform has arrived — enabling organizations everywhere to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Debuts End-to-End AI-Native Portfolio for Generative AI

Today at NVIDIA GTC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced updates to one of the industry’s most comprehensive AI-native portfolios to advance the operationalization of generative AI (GenAI), deep learning, and machine learning (ML) applications.

Hitachi Vantara Announces Collaboration with NVIDIA to Create New Portfolio of Industrial AI Solutions

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of transformational artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes by layering industry-specific capabilities on top of its AI solution stack, so outcomes can be more specific and relevant to an organization’s business.