BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE, MACHINE LEARNING
Businesswire | May 30, 2023
Snorkel AI, the data-centric AI platform company, today announced the agenda for Future of Data-Centric AI Conference 2023 (FDCAI). Now in its third year, FDCAI has established itself as the definitive community and conference for AI, bringing together thousands of data scientists, ML engineers, software developers, Fortune 500 organizations, AI-first companies, and academia under one roof to share best practices and the latest in AI innovation.
Held on June 7-8, 2023, this year's virtual event will explore how to leverage new AI advances such as large language models (LLMs), foundation models, generative AI, programmatic labeling, weak supervision, prompting, synthetic data and more—all using data-centric AI workflows.
"AI has seen an explosion of innovation in the last few months prompted by the fast rise of large language models,” said Devang Sachdev, VP of Marketing, Snorkel AI. “These advancements, while remarkable, also underscore the urgent need for adopting data-centric approaches to ensure high-quality data and effective AI development. This is why we started The Future of Data-Centric AI conference three years ago, and why we’re continuing to build on it today—to create a forum for the world’s AI innovators to discuss how to deploy AI in real-world settings.”
FDCAI’s speaker line-up this year includes leading AI practitioners, researchers and academics from such companies as: Arista, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Capital One, Caterpillar, Comcast, Databricks, EY, Georgetown University CSET, Google, Harvard, Hugging Face, JP Morgan & Chase, Kaiser Permanente, Marsh, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Natwest and many others. Notable mentions include:
DJ Patil, first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and General Partner, Greatpoint Ventures
Emad Mostaque, Founder and CEO, Stability AI
Yoav Shoham, Co-founder, AI21 Labs
Matei Zaharia, Chief Technologist, Databricks
Nurtekin Savas, Head of Enterprise Data Science, Capital One
Gideon Mann, Head of ML Product and Research, Office of the CTO at Bloomberg LP.
The sessions at this year’s conference will focus on the following areas:
Data development techniques: programmatic labeling, active learning, weak supervision, data cleaning, and synthetic data augmentation.
Enterprise use cases: predictive AI, generative AI, NLP, computer vision, conversational AI.
AI development stack: AutoML, ML frameworks, no-code/low-code development.
Foundation models/LLMs: fine-tuning, prompt engineering, prompt chaining, and enterprise adoption
This year’s conference also features an AI poster competition with $15K in prizes and submissions from Argonne National Lab, Columbia University, Cornell University, Medidata, Stanford University, TitanML, University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, University of Utah and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Future of Data-Centric AI conference is hosted by Snorkel AI in partnership with Gretel AI, Hugging Face, Lambda Labs, Microsoft, Predibase, Seldon AI, and Together. All the sessions are virtual and free to attend.
For the full conference schedule or to register, visit: https://future.snorkel.ai/
About Snorkel AI
Founded by a team spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, Snorkel AI makes AI application development fast and practical by unlocking the power of machine learning without the bottleneck of manually-labeled training data. Snorkel Flow is the first data-centric AI platform powered by programmatic labeling. Backed by Addition, Greylock, GV, In-Q-Tel, Lightspeed Venture Partners and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, the company is based in Palo Alto. For more information on Snorkel AI, please visit: https://www.snorkel.ai/ or follow @SnorkelAI.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE
Newswire | May 29, 2023
NorthGravity, a leading provider of advanced data analytics software, is thrilled to announce the release of Hubcio. With its cutting-edge capabilities, Hubcio will join the NorthGravity AI (NGAI), sitting alongside the NorthGravity Platform (NGP) and the NorthGravity Insights (NGI). Hubcio's integration with the NorthGravity AI Suite enables users to seamlessly leverage its power. Users can effortlessly build advanced data pipelines, streamline Python code to extract valuable insights, and gain a comprehensive view of internal documents and data—all within the unified NGAI ecosystem.
"We are excited to announce that Hubcio will be a vital component of our NorthGravity product," said Travis Nadelhoffer, CEO of NorthGravity. "By integrating Hubcio with NGP and NGI, we are providing our clients with a powerful suite of AI tools that seamlessly work together to enable data-driven insights and decision-making."
Key features of Hubcio within the NGAI include:
Unified AI Ecosystem: Hubcio seamlessly integrates with the NorthGravity Platform (NGP) and NorthGravity Insights (NGI) as part of the NorthGravity AI Suite (NGAI), providing users with an integrated environment for data analysis.
Advanced Data Pipelines: Users can build sophisticated data pipelines utilizing the NGAI ecosystem within the NGP, effortlessly transforming and processing data to extract valuable insights.
Python Optimization: Hubcio simplifies the process of writing Python code, enabling users to extract maximum value from data with minimal effort.
Advanced Expeditor: Hubcio creates a foundation for building data pipelines and writing code within the NGP.
Internal Document Insights: Gain a comprehensive view of internal documents and data, uncovering valuable insights and knowledge hidden within your organization, powered by the NGAI ecosystem.
Automated Submission and Training: Automate the submission and training of internal data and documents, creating a secure and customizable knowledge base for natural language queries, all within the NG ecosystem.
To learn more about Hubcio, please visit https://www.northgravity.com/.
About NorthGravity
NorthGravity is a leading provider of advanced data analytics software, helping businesses unlock the full potential of their data. NorthGravity's innovative software suite includes the NorthGravity Platform (NGP), NorthGravity Artificial Intelligence (NGAI), and NorthGravity Insights (NGI). The NGP is a platform used for data storage, collection, and pipelines. The NGAI is a suite of AI tasks, autoML and Hubcio. The NGI is a business insights tool. NorthGravity is committed to delivering superior software that drives business growth and success.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE
Prnewswire | June 02, 2023
Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced a broad range of enhancements to its industry-leading Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella™. The newest release of Capella will be accessible by popular developer platform Netlify and features a new Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension, making it easier for developers and development teams to build modern applications on Capella, streamline their workflows and increase productivity. Coinciding with National Cloud Database Day, Couchbase is also extending its enterprise deployability and introducing new features, allowing customers to move more applications to Capella with a lower TCO.
"The reality is that developers don't want to spend their time operating and integrating separate primitives. Capella's new developer platform integrations aim to address this widespread issue, minimizing the developer experience gap and allowing teams to focus on what they do best — writing code and solving problems," said Rachel Stephens, senior analyst at RedMonk.
Simplifying the Developer Experience With Netlify, VS Code and Capella
Findings from Couchbase's recent developer survey reveal that the majority of developers (94.9%) are currently at or over their work capacity and are on the brink of or already feeling overwhelmed. To reduce this friction and help developers lower their number of operational tasks, Couchbase is extending Capella to more of the developer platform ecosystem that is highly favored by frontend and full stack developers.
The new integration for Capella makes it easy for developers to connect to Netlify for more simplified and agile web application development. In addition, the new VS Code extension is designed to provide a seamless experience for Capella users who want to work within the popular source-code editor. These ecosystem enhancements are now available and reduce friction so that developers can focus on building innovative modern apps.
"Netlify's platform unites an extensive ecosystem of technologies, services and APIs into one workflow to empower developers to build composable web experiences with the tools that best suit their needs. In this way, Netlify meets their users where they are, allowing them to embrace the composable web in a manner that respects their existing businesses, while also balancing flexibility and enterprise-grade reliability. I'm a strong believer that when the ecosystem wins, we all win. That's why we're so excited to deepen our ties with Couchbase to strengthen and diversify the ecosystem of tools developers are using to build the modern web," said Chris Bach, co-founder and chief strategy and creative officer at Netlify.
Broader Enterprise Deployability and New Enterprise Features
Couchbase is also broadening Capella's enterprise features and deployability so customers can move more applications to the cloud database platform. The new Capella enhancements deliver the following benefits:
Support for time series data. A new time series array function in Couchbase's support for JSON will enable a broader set of use cases, such as IoT or finance apps. By using time series arrays, Couchbase is able to utilize all of its data access, processing and storage features including its patented array indexing and high-density storage engine. This approach will enable development teams to quickly and easily extend new features to their applications without adding complexity to their architecture or infrastructure, allowing them to be more agile and productive while driving cost efficiency.
Extending deployability of Capella. Couchbase has added over 10 new supported regions across the three major cloud service providers and larger instance sizes. Capella is also available directly in each of their marketplaces. Capella adds support for memory-only buckets (ephemeral databases) for caching and transient data use cases. Security and compliance capabilities are enhanced through Google Cloud HIPAA compliance and with private endpoints for Azure.
Enhanced management. Managing Capella is even easier now with the introduction of dynamic disk scaling, hibernation of clusters and the enabling of downloadable buckets. Also new is change data capture, which recognizes and automates change history on documents. This is then streamable via Kafka to other applications. These enhancements collectively position Capella as a single, comprehensive cloud database platform that offers broad multimodel support and in-memory performance — a powerful combination that lowers TCO for customers.
"We continue to broaden the Capella capabilities and make it easier for new developers to come on board and take advantage of our industry-leading cloud database platform," said Scott Anderson, SVP of product management and business operations at Couchbase. "Development teams can get started with Capella more quickly and do more with our cloud database platform, improving efficiency and productivity. And for operations teams, Capella becomes even easier to deploy and manage while broadened enterprise capabilities handle more workloads at a fraction of the cost compared to other document-based DBaaS offerings."
The new release of Capella will be generally available in the second quarter. Couchbase will host a webcast on June 7 and 8 to discuss what's new in Capella and how customers can benefit from the latest enhancements. Register here.
About Couchbase
Modern customer experiences need a flexible database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase's mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers – all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com and follow us on Twitter @couchbase.
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