Cloud Computing

As enterprise demand for building multi-agent systems continues to grow, data infrastructure services providing firm, Databricks, is updating its Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation module with a new synthetic data generation API that will help enterprises evaluate agents faster. Multi-agent systems, otherwise known as Agentic AI, have caught the fancy of…

At Campfire, we launched a consumer AI chat product called Cozy Friends on Steam and mobile on October 12. Imagine Animal Crossing or The Sims with AI agents. In the first 30 days, users exchanged more than 1.7M messages with our AI agents. This beat our best expectations and validated that…

I recall this as if it was yesterday. I entered the conference room to talk about cloud computing and 5G. I gave this type of presentation often a few years ago. The executives were excited about 5G’s potential. I took a deep breath, knowing I had to voice my concerns….

High-flying Python is expected to win the Tiobe programming language of the year designation for 2024, as the language with the biggest ratings increase in Tiobe’s language popularity index during the year. Python also ranks as the most popular programming language in the index overall. Although Tiobe won’t reveal the…

Attackers have compromised Ultralytics YOLO packages published on PyPI, the official Python package index, by compromising the build environment of the popular library for creating custom machine learning models. The malicious code deployed cryptocurrency mining malware on systems that installed the package, but the attackers could have delivered any type…

Generative AI has hit the mainstream with software developers. According to a recent GitHub survey, more than one million developers actively use GitHub Copilot. More importantly, these developers increasingly use AI as “a new building block in developing applications.” In other words, AI is becoming just as important to software…

Large language models by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get a more reliable system, one that is much less likely to go off the rails and “hallucinate,” which is a relatively…

In the last 10 years of building WaveMaker, the one thing we always hear are user expectations that low code will miraculously allow business users to develop feature-rich applications. Well, it can, but it most certainly shouldn’t. I’ll tell you why.  In 2021, Gartner predicted that active citizen developers at large enterprises…

AI platform provider Clarifai is publicly previewing compute orchestration for AI workloads that the company says works across any AI model on any compute, at any scale. Clarifai said its vendor-agnostic platform could build and orchestrate AI workloads across any hardware provider, cloud provider, on-premises, or air-gapped environment, helping enterprises…

OpenAI has officially released its OpenAI o1 large language model (LLM), built for complex reasoning. The company also introduced ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and advanced voice conversations. Available in a preview version, called o1-preview, in ChatGPT beginning September 12,…

AWS re:Invent, one the premier events in the cloud industry, serves as a platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new services, capabilities, and enhancements to its extensive portfolio. The 2024 event kicked off on Monday, December 2, with a live event in Las Vegas and a virtual event…

Data warehousing, business intelligence, data analytics, and AI services are all coming together under one roof at Amazon Web Services. This unification of analytics and AI services is perhaps best exemplified by a new offering inside Amazon SageMaker, Unified Studio, a preview of which AWS CEO Matt Garman unveiled at…

Originally developed by Microsoft as a way to adapt JavaScript as a tool to build enterprise-scale applications, TypeScript has become a widely popular programming language that combines JavaScript syntax with strong typing and object-oriented programming. This article gets you started with an overview of TypeScript, offering a brief history, a…

Generative AI is exploding and will continue to do so. As such, both on-premises and public cloud providers have seen a boom in demand for their AI wares, which will likely continue for at least the next five years. Cloud is, of course, a core benefit of companies’ intererest in…

Java Development Kit (JDK) 24 is now in an initial rampdown phase, with the feature set frozen at 24 features, ranging from a class-file API to a fourth preview of structured concurrency. JDK 24 reached the rampdown phase on December 5. It is due as a production release on March…