Heard on the Street – 12/12/2023

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Crafting Precision Content Using Large Language Models 

[SPONSORED POST] Our friends over at DAC recently explored the potential of LLMs to interpret or generate text considering numerous parameters with extraordinary precision. They have demonstrated their ability to evaluate unstructured text blocks and grade them along various scales to great success. Additionally, they have been able to generate specific, tailored content using a complex series of instructions that can be tuned with precision to the same set of scales. 

The Power of Startups in Turning Big Data into Big Impact

In this contributed article, Ben Younkman, Regional Director at Village Capital, explores how forward-thinking startups are spearheading data-driven innovation to create digital solutions that increase access to critical services — including the financial, educational and healthcare sectors — resulting in a more equitable and inclusive world.

Generative AI Report – 12/6/2023

Welcome to the Generative AI Report round-up feature here on insideBIGDATA with a special focus on all the new applications and integrations tied to generative AI technologies. We’ve been receiving so many cool news items relating to applications and deployments centered on large language models (LLMs), we thought it would be a timely service for readers to start a new channel along these lines. The combination of a LLM, fine tuned on proprietary data equals an AI application, and this is what these innovative companies are creating. The field of AI is accelerating at such fast rate, we want to help our loyal global audience keep pace.

TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for November 2023

In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.

Heard on the Street – 12/4/2023

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Three Roadblocks to Using Data to Its Full Potential

In this contributed article, Sridhar Bankuru, VP of Software Development at RightData, walks us through the top pain points of businesses today within their data trust journey, and looking ahead, how they can start trusting their data again.

PwC’s 2023 Emerging Technology Survey

Our friends over at PwC released its 2023 Emerging Technology Survey, unveiling the seismic impact emerging technologies have on top-performing companies and highlighting the critical role of AI in driving business model reinvention and long-term innovation.  

What is a RAG? 

In this contributed article, Magnus Revang, Chief Product Officer of Openstream.ai, points out that In the Large Language Model space, one acronym is frequently put forward as the solution to all the weaknesses. Hallucinations? RAG. Privacy? RAG. Confidentiality? RAG. Unfortunately, when asked to define RAG, the definitions are all over the place. 

Altair® Launches Altair RapidMiner® 2023 Platform To Deliver Next-Gen Gen AI Capabilities

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) announced that Altair® RapidMiner®, its data analytics and AI platform, is becoming more integrated, more powerful, and easier to use thanks to a new series of groundbreaking updates.