Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.
Microsoft launches native integration for Python in Excel
With native Python integration with Excel, users will be able to use the new “PY” function to input Python code directly into Excel cells.
IBM Watsonx to use generative AI to translate COBOL code into Java
The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle.
Google launches Pricing API to help enterprises optimize cloud costs
Pricing API will provide an inventory of public services and SKUs along with account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata, down to the SKU level.
Salesforce Einstein Studio to help enterprises train generative AI models
Einstein Studio can also help enterprises connect their data from Salesforce Data Cloud to third-party AI offerings including Amazon SageMaker and Google’s Vertex AI for model training.
AWS updates Amazon Bedrock service with new large language models
Apart from adding new features to Amazon Bedrock, AWS has also launched a new generative AI service, dubbed AWS HealthScribe, to help automatically create clinical documentation.
AWS’ Entity Resolution service to help enterprises improve data quality
The machine learning-powered service, accessible via a no-code interface in the AWS Management Console, can be used to match data from multiple data lakes or AWS storage, the company said.
Teradata acquires Stemma to boost AI-based data search for analytics
Stemma offers integrations with data warehouses, business intelligence tools, collaboration software and security tools.
Splunk’s new AI tools aim to ease security, observability tasks
The AI tools introduced at the company’s .conf2023 include the Splunk AI Assistant, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit 5.4, Splunk App for Anomaly Detection, and the Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning 5.1.
Meta lets loose second generation of Llama AI models
Meta says organizations can download Llama 2 for free, and run it wherever they wish, for research and commercial purposes. Microsoft and AWS are already hosting it.
How Databricks is adding generative AI capabilities to its Delta Lake lakehouse
The Delta Lake updates aim at helping data professionals create generative AI capabilities for their enterprise with foundation models from MosaicML and Hugging Face, among others.
Databricks Delta Lake 3.0 to counter Apache Iceberg tables
The updates in Delta Lake 3.0 include a new universal table format, dubbed UniForm, a Delta Kernel, and liquid clustering to improve data read and write performance.
Snowflake updates target generative AI demand from enterprises
While Snowpark Container Services and an Nvidia partnership will help enterprises manage large language models, Streamlit and Git updates are squarely aimed at easing developers’ tasks.
Databricks’ $1.3 billion MosaicML acquisition to boost generative AI offerings
Databricks will add MosaicML's model-training capabilities to its lakehouse platform.
MongoDB Atlas updates focus on simplifying developer tasks
Updates include support for additional programming languages on AWS, easier installation of Atlas’ Kubernetes Operator, and a new Kotlin driver.
MongoDB adds vector search to Atlas database to help build AI apps
In addition to integrating Google Cloud’s Vertex AI foundation models, MongoDB is adding features aimed at making Atlas a complete developer data platform.
Databricks takes on Snowflake, MongoDB with new Lakehouse Apps
Databricks has also updated its Marketplace to allow enterprises to share AI models while monetizing them, the company said.
Aerospike’s new Graph database to support both OLAP and OLTP workloads
The new database adds a property graph data model to the existing capabilities of its NoSQL Database and Apache TinkerPop graph compute engine.
DataStax adds Schema GPT Translator to Apache Pulsar-based Astra Streaming
The new Schema GPT Translator is designed to free developers to focus on other aspects real-time data pipelines instead of coping with the time-consuming process of manually creating schema mappings.
Microsoft launches GPT-enabled Azure AI for US government agencies
For government customers, Microsoft has developed a new architecture that enables government agencies to securely access the large language models in the commercial environment from Azure Government.