Tag: Data Storage and Cloud

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced Thursday the launch of rBio, the first artificial intelligence model trained to reason about cellular biology using virtual simulations rather than requiring expensive laboratory experiments — a breakthrough that could dramatically accelerate biomedical research and drug discovery. The reasoning model, detailed in a research paper published on bioRxiv, demonstrates a […]

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How AI ‘digital minds’ startup Delphi stopped drowning in user data and scaled up with Pinecone

Delphi, a two-year-old San Francisco AI startup named after the Ancient Greek oracle, was facing a thoroughly 21st-century problem: its “Digital Minds”— interactive, personalized chatbots modeled after an end-user and meant to channel their voice based on their writings, recordings, and other media — were drowning in data. Each Delphi can draw from any number […]

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The NYSE sped up its realtime streaming data 5X with Redpanda

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Real-time streaming data can be valuable for numerous applications and purposes across industries. In the case of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), streaming data is literally money. The […]

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Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone

The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This architecture has delivered online services to billions globally and put virtually all of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the next computing revolution will demand much […]

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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within […]

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Google DeepMind says its new AI can map the entire planet with unprecedented accuracy

Google DeepMind announced today a breakthrough artificial intelligence system that transforms how organizations analyze Earth’s surface, potentially revolutionizing environmental monitoring and resource management for governments, conservation groups, and businesses worldwide. The system, called AlphaEarth Foundations, addresses a critical challenge that has plagued Earth observation for decades: making sense of the overwhelming flood of satellite data […]

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Slack gets smarter: New AI tools summarize chats, explain jargon, and automate work

Slack is rolling out an extensive array of artificial intelligence features that promise to eliminate routine tasks and turn the messaging platform into a central hub for enterprise productivity, marking owner Salesforce’s direct challenge to Microsoft’s workplace AI dominance. The announcements, set to roll out over the coming months, include AI-powered writing assistance embedded directly […]

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From 30 days to 1: Chevron’s cloud migration ROI in real numbers

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more The No. 1 way AI is changing 150-year-old energy giant Chevron? How technical practitioners engage with data.  Offshore in the Gulf, Chevron is drilling for oil resources miles below the ocean floor […]

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The inference trap: How cloud providers are eating your AI margins

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI has become the holy grail of modern companies. Whether it’s customer service or something as niche as pipeline maintenance, organizations in every domain are now implementing AI technologies — […]

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How Highmark Health and Google Cloud are using Gen AI to streamline medical claims and improve care: 6 key lessons

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Among the numerous educational and startlingly insightful panel discussions on AI enterprise integrations featuring industry leaders at VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 conference this week was one led by Google Cloud Platform Vice President […]

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Emergence AI’s CRAFT arrives to make it easy for enterprises to automate their entire data pipeline

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more New York City based startup Emergence AI, founded by former IBM researchers, previously made headlines for its impressive automated system that allows enterprises to type in a requested task in plain natural […]

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Cutting cloud waste at scale: Akamai saves 70% using AI agents orchestrated by kubernetes

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Particularly in this dawning era of generative AI, cloud costs are at an all-time high. But that’s not merely because enterprises are using more compute — they’re not using it efficiently. In […]

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Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache Spark […]

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Asset sprawl, siloed data and CloudQuery’s search for unified cloud governance

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Gaining visibility — and, ultimately, insights — into enterprise cloud assets is growing ever more challenging.  Cloud estates are sprawling and fragmented, and inventory capabilities in existing tools can be narrow and […]

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Zip debuts 50 AI agents to kill procurement inefficiencies—OpenAI is already on board

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Zip, the $2.2 billion procurement platform startup, unveiled a suite of 50 specialized artificial intelligence agents on Tuesday designed to automate the tedious manual work that plagues enterprise purchasing departments worldwide. This […]

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Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replaces

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Solidroad, an artificial intelligence startup that promises to solve one of customer service’s most persistent problems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform that automatically trains customer service representatives and improves AI […]

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Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For anyone in AI, it’s no big news that “data is the real prize.” If you have strong data foundations, your models and the applications powered by them will be right on the money. But that’s […]

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