Orchestrate all the Things

The conflict between access to data and data sovereignty is key to understanding how AI works, and moving it forward. The Ocean Protocol Foundation wants to help resolve that conflict, by introducing a way of letting AI work with data without giving up control. The goal is to decentralize data science and AI using blockchain, and the latest milestone called Compute-to-Data brings this one step clo...

Streamlit is an open source framework that wants to revolutionize building machine learning and data science applications, and just secured a $21 million Series A funding to try and do this. Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases: a quick way to get results, without bothering much with the details. In today's episode, we welcome Streamlit CE...

Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. A pure-play open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL, with support for Apache Cassandra and GraphQL interfaces, is what you need. Or at least, this is what the Yugabyte crew thinks. The company, founded by Facebook data infrastructure veterans, announced that it has raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B round to double down on com...

Fact or fiction? That's not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and bias typically come into play. In the nascent domain of scientific fact checking, things are complicated. If you think fact-checking is hard, which it is, then what would you say about verifying scientific claims, on COVID-19 no less? Hint: it's also hard -- different in some ways, similar in some othe...

Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight. Few people, Nvidia's competitors included, would dispute the fact that  Nvidia  is calling the shots in the AI chip game today. The  announcement of the new Ampere AI chip  in Nvidia's main event, GTC, stole the spotlight. Let's put...

From user, to partner and investor. That's not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa. GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users. In this backstage chat, GoodData CEO and Founder Roman Stanek and George Anadiotis discuss the ins and outs of the deal, the data landscape, the way data are used to shape dir...

Grafana Labs, makers of popular open-source observability platform  Grafana , announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0. This comes only a few months after  Grafana Labs scored $24 million in Series A funding  to double down on open-source strategy and build what it dubs the world's first open and composable observability platform. In this backstage chat, CEO and Founder Raj Dutt and Georg...

Knowledge graphs are among the most important technologies for the 2020s. Here is how they are evolving, with vendors and standard bodies listening, and platforms becoming fluent in many query languages. Article published on ZDNet, January 2020 .