Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.
Google Cloud’s Colab Enterprise environment to help tune LLMs
At its Cloud Next conference, the company added new features for advanced MLOps for generative AI and launched Ray on Vertex AI for scaling AI workloads efficiently.
Google’s new Vertex AI features to unlock advanced LLM capabilities
At its annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced new tools, such as Vertex AI Extensions and Vertex AI Connectors, while updating Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversations with new features.
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.