Automating Model Monitoring in MLOps: Leveraging AI to Track Performance and Detect Anomalies

In this contributed article, April Miller, senior IT and cybersecurity writer for ReHack Magazine, discusses how MLOps — with its emphasis on the end-to-end life cycle of ML models — needs to prioritize automated, AI-driven model monitoring. As the world increasingly relies on ML-driven decisions, ensuring these models operate without biases and remain trustworthy is paramount.

Heard on the Street – 9/26/2023

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.

New MongoDB Atlas Vector Search Capabilities Help Developers Build and Scale AI Applications

MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) announced new capabilities, performance improvements, and a data-streaming integration for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search that make it even faster and easier for developers to build generative AI applications. Organizations of all sizes have rushed to adopt MongoDB Atlas Vector Search as part of a unified solution to process data for generative AI applications since being announced in preview in June of this year.

Protestors to Meta AI: “Sharing model weights is fundamentally unsafe” 

Meta’s frontier AI models are fundamentally unsafe. Since Meta AI has released the model weights publicly, any safety measures can be removed. Before it releases even more advanced models – which can have more dangerous capabilities – a group of concerned citizens call on Meta to take responsible release seriously and stop irreversible proliferation. Join in for a peaceful protest at Meta’s office in San Francisco.

Timescale Vector Launches to Enable Developers to Build Production AI Applications at Scale With PostgreSQL

Timescale, the cloud database company, announced the launch of Timescale Vector, enabling developers to build production AI applications at scale with PostgreSQL. With Timescale Vector, which sits atop Timescale’s production-grade cloud PostgreSQL platform, developers can now leverage a single platform for managing relational data, vector embeddings, time-series data, analytics and event data that powers their next-generation AI applications. Developers can now bring AI products to market faster, more reliably and efficiently than with traditional vector databases.

TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for August 2023

In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.

insideBIGDATA Latest News – 9/21/2023

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.

Intel Innovation 2023 Highlights

Tuesday morning (Sept. 19, 2023), Intel kicked off its third annual developer event, Intel Innovation 2023, virtually and in San Jose, California. During the Day 1 keynote, “Developing the Future of the Siliconomy,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and a variety of customers, unveiled an array of technologies and applications that bring artificial intelligence everywhere and make it more accessible across all workloads.

26 Years Since its Inception, Postgres is Just Getting Started 

In this contributed article, Charly Batista, PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona, explores why Postgres is on the rise and why Postgres’ brand of open source is good for business.
One of the most widely used database management systems in the world, Postgres still lags quite substantially behind the likes of MySQL and Oracle in total adoption.

SambaNova Unveils New AI Chip, the SN40L, Powering its Full Stack AI Platform

SambaNova Systems, makers of the purpose-built, full stack AI platform, announced a revolutionary new chip, the SN40L. The SN40L will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite, with its revolutionary new design: on the inside it offers both dense and sparse compute, and includes both large and fast memory, making it a truly “intelligent chip.”