Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
March 1, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: March 1, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
IBM is announcing that Mixtral-8x7B—the popular, open source large language model (LLM) developed by Mistral AI—is available on the watsonx AI and Data platform. Now offering an enhanced version of Mixtral-8x7B, this latest delivery of the LLM echoes IBM's commitment to provide the foundational models for its clients to innovate, according to the company.
Kerlink, an international specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and Actility, a recognized global provider in low-power industrial IoT connectivity solutions, are forming a strategic partnership that builds on complementary strengths of their products, along with supporting a plug-and-play, edge computing LoRaWAN ecosystem in a single solution.
Seeq, a provider of industrial analytics and AI solutions, is debuting the Seeq AI Assistant, a generative AI (GenAI) resource embedded across its industrial analytics platform that provides real-time assistance to users across the enterprise. The Seeq AI Assistant empowers users to accelerate mastery of the Seeq platform, build advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI skills and knowledge, and accelerate insights to improve decision making in pursuit of operational excellence and sustainability, according to the company.
Veeam Software, the data protection and ransomware recovery provider, is debuting its Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure—the Veeam Data Cloud.