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EPAM Releases AI-powered DIAL Platform for Open Source -- Helping Companies Quickly Advance Generative AI and LLM-Driven Solutions

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

NEWTOWN, Pa., Dec. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, today announced the launch of its AI-powered DIAL Open Source Platform, a multi-modal, model-agnostic solution enabling developers to build upon the existing model to create custom applications, experiment with new use cases and develop innovative implementations.

Key Points: 
  • Developed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, EPAM's DIAL Platform aims to foster collaborative development and widespread adoption.
  • The Platform's open source model encourages community contributions, supports both open source and commercial use, provides legal clarity, allows for the creation of derivative works and aligns with open source principles.
  • "The launch of our AI-powered DIAL Open Source Platform underscores our ongoing commitment to building a robust and advanced digital landscape with open source innovation," said Ilya Gorelik, Head of EPAM's Reliable AI Lab.
  • "EPAM's DIAL open source aims to foster collaboration within the developer community, encouraging contributions and facilitating adoption across various projects and industries.

EPAM Launches DIAL, A Unified Generative AI Orchestration Platform

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

NEWTOWN, Pa., Aug. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --  EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, today announced the launch of its AI-powered DIAL Orchestration Platform (Deterministic Integrator of Applications and LLMs), which merges the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) with deterministic code — offering a secure, scalable and customizable AI workbench to streamline and enhance AI-driven business solutions.

Key Points: 
  • The DIAL Platform offers a unified user interface, empowering businesses to leverage a spectrum of public and proprietary LLMs, Add-ons, APIs, Datastores and Business Applications.
  • The DIAL Platform aggregates multi-cloud assets libraries including components, routing, rate-limiting software, monitoring tools, load-balancing solutions and deployment scripts.
  • "Since 2021, we have experimented with thousands of AI use cases, helping EPAM and our customers to identify and adopt Generative AI scenarios to power business transformation initiatives," said Elaina Shekhter, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at EPAM.
  • "RAIL, as part of EPAM's broader R&D initiatives, concentrates on creating accelerators and components that encompass a full scope of advanced technologies, including Generative AI.

Venture Studio at Purdue University launches to digitize the agri-food system

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Thursday, July 7, 2022

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- DIAL Ventures, an innovation initiative launched by Purdue University, has set out to help digitize the agri-food system. Some areas that are being addressed by DIAL Ventures' initiatives are food safety, supply chain transparency, labor shortages, sustainability, and environmental impact. Through its unique innovation process, DIAL Ventures strives to solve problems in agri-food's globally distributed continuous production system.

Key Points: 
  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- DIAL Ventures , an innovation initiative launched by Purdue University, has set out to help digitize the agri-food system.
  • Through its unique innovation process, DIAL Ventures strives to solve problems in agri-food's globally distributed continuous production system.
  • "The agri-food system has consistently been recognized as one of the industries furthest behind in its ability to digitize.
  • DIAL Ventures' three-fold strategy is:
    Open innovation to benefit the industry;
    A fellowship program for top entrepreneurs; and
    Corporate partnerships to drive strategy.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments Expands Strategic Beta Fixed Income Suite with Launch of Columbia Short Duration Bond ETF (SBND)

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Columbia Threadneedle Investments today announced the expansion of its strategic beta fixed income exchange-traded fund (ETF) offerings with the launch of Columbia Short Duration Bond ETF (NYSE Arca: SBND), a short-duration bond strategy focused on generating income in four segments of the debt markets.

Key Points: 
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments today announced the expansion of its strategic beta fixed income exchange-traded fund (ETF) offerings with the launch of Columbia Short Duration Bond ETF (NYSE Arca: SBND), a short-duration bond strategy focused on generating income in four segments of the debt markets.
  • We believe a cost-efficient and thoughtfully diversified strategy offers a better way to shorten portfolio duration without sacrificing income potential.
  • The launch of SBND adds another compelling fixed income strategic beta solution to a lineup that includes Columbia Diversified Fixed Income Allocation ETF (DIAL), launched in 2017, and Columbia Multi-Sector Municipal Income ETF (MUST), launched in 2018.
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments (Columbia Threadneedle) is the global brand name of the Columbia and Threadneedle group of companies.