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AI in August: RBAC is back, data as a product, and something about a bubble
The data engineers are more important than ever these days.
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Matthew Lynley

August 2024

The point of lightning-fast model inference
We're obsessed with generating thousands of tokens a second for a reason—and it isn't just to wow end users with text showing up on a screen really…
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Matthew Lynley
The free tokens will continue until business improves
The SaaS-ification of AI continues, with OpenAI and Google ready to go full 2010s to get people on board. Plus, durable execution returns as a topic du…
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Matthew Lynley
About that AI bubble
AI can be far from achieving its potential, but it can also be really useful right now.
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Matthew Lynley
Revisiting that old Google AI memo
A few things have changed since a Google researcher sounded the alarm on Google's risk to open source AI in a leaked memo last year.
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Matthew Lynley

June 2024

The search for the next class of AI founders
Venture firms are trying to get creative to get in front of the next hottest AI startups. But they have to look in new areas to find them.
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Matthew Lynley
For Apple, it's RPA all the way down
Plus: the future of an AI data marketplace continues to potentially lie within Snowflake and Databricks—if they can convince customers of the value.
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Matthew Lynley
Lakes, catalogs, and Snowflake's full court press on AI
Snowflake is converging with its rival, Databricks, faster than ever before. And its new CEO is gearing up for a partial "pivot" into AI.
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Matthew Lynley

May 2024

A new whisper in the AI analytics room
Informatica, of all companies, is creeping back into conversations despite being a legacy vendor. Plus: what happens when RAG isn't enough?
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Matthew Lynley
OpenAI's Silicon Valley pivot
What was a research organization is now following dreams of being the next Apple. Plus: Why is everyone suddenly talking about WebGPU again?
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Matthew Lynley
AI in April (and Q2): RPA in focus, holistic evaluations, and eyes back on Datadog
Plus: OpenAI and Google are doing some stuff next week.
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Where graph databases live in a future AI data stack
Another once specialized database technology from the previous big data era might find its way into AI products thanks to retrieval augmented…
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