Video Highlights: Gradient Boosting: XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost — with Kirill Eremenko

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Kirill Eremenko to walk listeners through why decision trees and random forests are fruitful for businesses, and he offers hands-on walkthroughs for the three leading gradient-boosting algorithms today: XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost.

How Can AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance Boost Business Efficiency

In this contributed article, April Miller, senior IT and cybersecurity writer for ReHack Magazine, shows that when AI steps into predictive maintenance, it supercharges this capability. It offers more profound insights, accurate predictions and the ability to act swiftly. This blend of technology enhances operational efficiency and paves the way for a deeper exploration into how such innovations can transform the business landscape.

Video Highlights: The Best AI Startup Opportunities — with Venture Capitalist Rudina Seseri

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, sits down with Rudina Seseri from Glasswing Ventures to answer the question: “What has Glasswing Ventures done for the company beyond capital investment?” Rudina describes how her company uses data to assess venture capital investments, the secret sauce of successful AI startups, and why she feels generative AI is only the start of a much broader impact that AI will make in communities and businesses.

The Synergy of AI and Cloud Transformation in the Payment Sector: Advancing Security, Scalability, and Innovation

In this contributed article, technical leader Kamala Manju Kesavan discusses how AI and cloud computing research in the payment industry sheds light on a prosperous arena of inventions and transformation. In the near future, the payment sector will probably welcome advanced technologies such as blockchain, biometric authentication, and AI-powered solutions, which will lead to transactions that will be more secure, rapid, and user-friendly.

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..

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.

Alice & Bob to Integrate Cat Qubits in Datacenters of the Future, Accelerated by NVIDIA Technology

Alice & Bob, a quantum hardware manufacturer and leading QPU designer, announced it is working to accelerate the integration of quantum technology into industry by introducing cat qubits into the datacenters of the future.