Serverless computing

Predibase Named to the 2024 CB Insights AI 100 List

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

CB Insights today named Predibase to its eighth-annual AI 100 , showcasing the 100 most promising private AI companies of 2024.

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  • CB Insights today named Predibase to its eighth-annual AI 100 , showcasing the 100 most promising private AI companies of 2024.
  • “AI is taking off at lightning speed, and it’s not just big tech companies at the forefront of it,” said Deepashri Varadharajan, director of AI research at CB Insights.
  • “Our AI 100 winners – many of them early stage startups, some with very small teams – are pushing the boundaries of AI in everything from game development and battery design to agentic AI systems.”
    “We're grateful for the recognition of the CB Insights AI 100 list, further validating our view that the future is fine-tuned,” said Dev Rishi, co-founder and CEO of Predibase.
  • We also analyzed CB Insights’ exclusive interviews with software buyers and dug into Analyst Briefings submitted directly to us by startups.

Redpanda Serverless Delivers Powerful Streaming Data Platform as a Fully Managed Pay-as-you-go Service

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

“Redpanda Serverless lets us run our service in a cost-efficient manner that scales with our usage spikes, so we can focus on enforcing compliance and putting security on autopilot for our customers' IoT fleets."

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  • “Redpanda Serverless lets us run our service in a cost-efficient manner that scales with our usage spikes, so we can focus on enforcing compliance and putting security on autopilot for our customers' IoT fleets."
  • This new serverless offering rounds out Redpanda’s fully managed cloud deployment options, which include a dedicated Redpanda Cloud service as well as a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) option.
  • An industry first, Redpanda BYOC solves data sovereignty in the cloud by keeping the user’s data and underlying security credentials in the user’s cloud infrastructure.
  • On March 26th at 9am PST Redpanda will host a live launch event for Redpanda Serverless that will include a live demo, customer roundtable and Q&A.

InfluxData Collaborating with AWS to Bring InfluxDB and Time Series Analytics to Developers Around the World

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Friday, March 15, 2024

Making InfluxDB a preferred AWS time series database signifies InfluxData’s category leadership and the high-growth market for time series databases to power real-time analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) training models.

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  • Making InfluxDB a preferred AWS time series database signifies InfluxData’s category leadership and the high-growth market for time series databases to power real-time analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) training models.
  • By working with InfluxData, AWS developers now have a simple way to manage and derive value from time series data within the AWS Management Console.
  • In the future, Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB will expand to offer additional InfluxDB versions, including the new InfluxDB 3.0 product line via InfluxDB Community, currently in development.
  • AWS and InfluxData will also collaborate to offer AWS customers additional modules specific to the 3.0 product offering.

Huawei Cloud at KubeCon EU 2024: Unleashing the Intelligent Era with Continuous Open Source Innovation

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Monday, March 25, 2024

Huawei Cloud plans to keep innovating open source projects and collaborating with developers to bring about an intelligent era.

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  • Huawei Cloud plans to keep innovating open source projects and collaborating with developers to bring about an intelligent era.
  • Dennis Gu shared stories about Huawei Cloud's AI innovation, offering developers a reference point to tackle the challenges.
  • Huawei Cloud used KubeEdge, a cloud native edge computing platform, to create a multi-robot scheduling and management platform.
  • Huawei Cloud is dedicated to open source innovation and aims to work with industry peers to usher in a new era of intelligence.

Predibase Announces LoRA Land – Dozens of Efficiently Fine-tuned LLMs That Outperform GPT-4 All Served From a Single GPU

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Predibase , the developer platform for fine-tuning LLMs, today introduced LoRA Land, a collection of 25 open-source fine-tuned models that rival or outperform GPT-4.0.

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  • Predibase , the developer platform for fine-tuning LLMs, today introduced LoRA Land, a collection of 25 open-source fine-tuned models that rival or outperform GPT-4.0.
  • Designed to serve use cases ranging from sentiment analysis to summarization, LoRA Land demonstrates the simplicity and cost effectiveness of training highly accurate, specialized LLMs with Predibase.
  • LoRA Land is powered by the open-source LoRAX framework and Predibase’s Serverless Fine-tuned Endpoints, showcasing how teams can serve many fine-tuned LLMs cost-effectively on a single GPU.
  • LoRAX, the open-source platform for serving fine-tuned LLMs developed by Predibase, enables teams to deploy hundreds of fine-tuned LLMs for the cost of one from a single GPU.

VTEX Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide B2C Digital Commerce Platforms for Midmarket Growth 2024 Vendor Assessment

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VTEX (NYSE: VTEX), the composable and complete commerce platform for both B2C and B2B brands, today proudly announced its recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide B2C Digital Commerce Platforms for Midmarket Growth 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US50626123, January 2024).

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VTEX (NYSE: VTEX), the composable and complete commerce platform for both B2C and B2B brands, today proudly announced its recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide B2C Digital Commerce Platforms for Midmarket Growth 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US50626123, January 2024).
  • VTEX is named a Leader among 25 digital commerce vendors assessed for their capabilities and strategic approach to B2C use cases.
  • This announcement comes just months after VTEX was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: B2B Digital Commerce for Midmarket Growth 2023–2024 Assessment (doc #US50625723, December 2023).
  • To learn more about VTEX being named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: B2C Digital Commerce Platforms for Midmarket Growth, read the report excerpt here .

Trillo Launches Trillo Workbench: Enabling Businesses to Build New Applications, conventional or AI powered, in the Cloud with up to 90% cost and time savings!

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Trillo Workbench is designed to empower organizations by eliminating the traditional barriers and complexities associated with developing applications for the cloud.

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  • Trillo Workbench is designed to empower organizations by eliminating the traditional barriers and complexities associated with developing applications for the cloud.
  • It enables you to build cloud applications in one-third of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional development.
  • Trillo Workbench provides these common services out of the box and enables you to build and reuse new services.
  • Trillo File Manager offers a secure file management and transfer capability in your private cloud using low cost cloud storage.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces the Graduation of CloudEvents

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of CloudEvents. CloudEvents is a specification for exposing event metadata in a common way to provide interoperability across services, platforms, and systems.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of CloudEvents .
  • "CloudEvents started with a simple premise of trying to spec out what a common set of event metadata would look like across a variety of cloud native and serverless systems," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
  • Since its inception, the CloudEvents project has had over 340 contributors involved in the development of the specification from 122 different organizations.
  • SAP is delighted to have helped CloudEvents towards graduation and looks forward to continued collaboration with the project and community."

VTEX recognized as a Leader by IDC MarketScape for Global B2B Digital Commerce Applications for Midmarket Growth - Paving a Pivotal Moment for B2B brands to seize the Biggest Commerce Opportunity of 2024

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Friday, January 12, 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VTEX, the composable and complete commerce platform for both B2C and B2B brands, has been named a Leader in the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide B2B Digital Commerce Applications for MidMarket Growth 2023–2024 Vendor Assessment.

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  • VTEX is also acknowledged as a 'Major Player' in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise B2B Digital Commerce Applications 2023–2024 Vendor Assessment.
  • NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VTEX , the composable and complete commerce platform for both B2C and B2B brands, has been named a Leader in the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide B2B Digital Commerce Applications for MidMarket Growth 2023–2024 Vendor Assessment.
  • The IDC MarketScape recognizes VTEX's leadership in B2B Digital Commerce, citing VTEX's strengths in the report as:
    Unified commerce approach: Unified commerce is a term with many potential definitions in commerce.
  • Leveraging VTEX capabilities, the initiative aimed to streamline the buyer journey and bring the B2B digital commerce site to life.

AWS Announces Three Serverless Innovations to Help Customers Analyze and Manage Data at Any Scale

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

AWS is also releasing a new Amazon Redshift Serverless capability that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict workloads and automatically scale and optimize resources to help customers meet their price-performance targets.

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  • AWS is also releasing a new Amazon Redshift Serverless capability that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict workloads and automatically scale and optimize resources to help customers meet their price-performance targets.
  • The dynamic nature of data makes it perfectly suited to serverless technologies, which is why AWS offers a broad range of serverless database and analytics offerings that help support our customers' most demanding workloads.
  • To get the most value out of this data, these companies need an end-to-end strategy that can help them analyze and manage the data at any scale.
  • Amazon ElastiCache Serverless automatically replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and provides customers with 99.99% availability for all workloads.