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Redpanda Debuts Cloud-Based Connectors for AI Services, a New Multimodal Streaming Engine, and More

Redpanda, the all-in-one streaming data platform, is unveiling a variety of new AI integrations available within Redpanda Connect, a lightweight yet powerful integration framework written in Golang offering a collection of sources, sinks, and processors that power real-time data and AI pipelines. By expanding AI connectivity with cloud availability—as well as launching a series of other innovations—Redpanda continues to help customers integrate disparate systems in the blink of an eye, according to the company.

Tines Workbench Streamlines Security Workflows with AI-Powered Context and Natural Language

Tines, the trusted leader in smart, secure workflows, is announcing the GA of Workbench, an AI chat interface that empowers security teams to interact with proprietary data and dynamically orchestrate mission-critical processes with their natural language.

Dru Investigate Combines GenAI and NLP to Accelerate Data Risk Investigations

Druva, the leading provider of data security, is debuting Dru Investigate, a generative AI (GenAI)-powered tool designed to help IT admins and security teams investigate cyberthreats with natural language. By eliminating the need for complex queries, enterprise teams can effectively and intuitively understand potential data risks, streamlining the investigation process and fueling positive outcomes.

Tenable’s AI Aware Helps Enterprises Surface Unauthorized AI Usage and Vulnerabilities

Tenable, the exposure management company, is debuting AI Aware, a new detection capability that surfaces exposure insights for AI applications, libraries, and plugins. As part of Tenable Vulnerability Management, AI Aware brings transparency to AI initiatives, shedding light on potential risk without interrupting business operations.

Early Access of Progress MarkLogic Server 12 Supports Accurate and Agile GenAI

Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, is debuting the early access release of Progress MarkLogic Server 12, a solution that unifies a database, search engine, data integration tools, mastering capabilities, and more, into a single offering. Version 12 delivers a variety of new features, including native vector support, relevance-based algorithms, a flexible retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pattern, and a capability for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. 

SeekrFlow Closes the AI Enablement Gap with Alignment and Explainability at its Core

Seekr, the artificial intelligence company that fuels innovation and unlocks productivity for businesses of all industries through responsible and explainable AI solutions, is debuting SeekrFlow, a complete, end-to-end AI platform for training, validating, deploying, and scaling trusted enterprise AI applications. Designed in response to the rampant barriers in the adoption and successful management of AI projects, SeekrFlow is an intuitive platform delivering principle alignment technology and an explainability toolset for trustworthy, valuable AI implementation.

Revefi Launches First Zero-Touch, Zero-Data-Access AI Data Engineer

Revefi, the company enabling businesses to maximize ROI on their data investments, is announcing the launch of Raden, the world's first AI data engineer designed to complement traditional data engineers and enhance their overall efficacy. As the scope of the data engineer's workload has significantly broadened, Raden offers "distinguished engineer" expertise as a comprehensive, zero-touch, zero-data-access AI solution that delivers automations across the entire data lifecycle.

Intel and IBM Accelerate and Secure Scalable, Cost-Efficient AI Workloads

To help enterprises scale AI initiatives with cost efficiency, security, and resiliency at the forefront, IBM and Intel are announcing a collaborative effort to deploy Intel's Gaudi 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. By leveraging key IBM capabilities in conjunction with Intel's Gaudi 3, the two companies aim to better equip organizations for the ongoing, ever-evolving era of AI.

Fisent Technologies’ BizAI Empowers Seamless GenAI Model Switching for End-to-End Automations

Fisent Technologies, the company revolutionizing how business is performed by enabling the utilization of generative AI (GenAI) models for the automation of common business processes, is announcing the launch of its Applied GenAI Process Automation solution, BizAI, which empowers enterprises to choose the large language models (LLM) that best fit their unique processes. BizAI offers full model optionality, allowing users to seamlessly add and shift GenAI models as needed.

Progress Semaphore 5.10 Delivers AI-Assisted, Quality-Oriented Knowledge Modeling

Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, is unveiling the latest iteration of Progress Semaphore, the metadata management and semantic AI platform for transforming complex enterprise information into actionable intelligence. Semaphore 5.10 continues to help enterprises make sense of their knowledge estates, offering intuitive, AI-assisted knowledge modeling, extended mapping capabilities, and classification filtering.

IBM Debuts New Processor Technologies to Support Advanced AI

IBM is unveiling new processor innovations designed to accelerate AI initiatives across next-generation IBM Z mainframe systems. The new technologies—IBM Telum II processor, IO acceleration unit, and IBM Spyre accelerator—serve to improve latency, sustainability, and scale processing capacity to better accommodate the demands of AI and large language models (LLMs).

Coupa Unveils New AI Capabilities to Enhance Enterprise Productivity and Minimize Spend

Coupa, the margin multiplier company, is debuting a range of new AI-powered capabilities, joining the 100-plus features throughout the Coupa platform. Each of these features serve to optimize operations, enhance productivity, and ease the pains of employee workflows, empowering enterprises to achieve success in a constantly fluctuating market, according to Coupa.

AI Risk and Fynancial Partner to Infuse Wealth Management Workflows with AI-Powered Capabilities

Artificial Intelligence Risk, Inc. (AI Risk), a leader in AI governance, risk, compliance, and cybersecurity (AI GRCC) software, is announcing that it has entered a strategic partnership with Fynancial, a social financial platform for the wealth management industry. This partnership will serve to combine AI-driven features with Fynancial's social experiences platform, boosting productivity for financial advisor workflows.

Dataiku Continues to Support the Multi-LLM Approach with LLM Mesh Expansion

Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, is announcing the expansion of its LLM Mesh ecosystem, securely connecting enterprises to thousands of large language model (LLM) gateways. This release is also paired with the announcement of LLM Registry, an effort to close the governance gap between LLM management and regulatory readiness, according to Dataiku.

Hazelcast Expands Global Partner Program to Drive Support for AI Applications

Hazelcast Inc., a leading software provider powering mission-critical applications that move the economy, is announcing new additions to its global partner program, expanding the reach of the Hazelcast Platform—a unified, real-time data platform designed to support AI applications at a low total cost of ownership (TCO). These new partnerships—Altron Digital Business (South Africa), Prospect 33 (Global), and SaH Analytics (Côte d'Ivoire)—will benefit from working closely with Hazelcast to drive modernization initiatives for AI. 

LambdaTest Launches KaneAI, Merging Natural Language with Test Automation

LambdaTest, a leading, cloud-based, unified testing platform, is debuting KaneAI, an end-to-end software AI Test Assistant designed to help users author, debug, and evolve complex test cases through natural language. 

NETSCOUT’s Omnis AI Insights Delivers High-Quality, Enriched Data at Scale to Support AIOps

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, is debuting a new initiative centered on delivering the high-quality, curated data necessary to support AIOps across the enterprise. By leveraging its existing partner ecosystem—including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Splunk, and more—NETSCOUT's Omnis AI Insights solution will produce AI-ready data that effectively serves business-critical operations, said the company.

iManage Releases AI-Powered Services for Improving Productivity and Business Success

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, is unveiling new AI-powered services—iManage AI Enrichment, iManage Mailbox Assistant, and Ask iManage—which each serve to bring the power of ethical, secure AI to the hands of iManage knowledge work platform users. With the aims of increasing productivity, making organizational knowledge more effective, and reducing manual workloads, iManage's latest release empowers customers to center their attention on higher value processes, inviting positive business outcomes, according to the company.

ClearML’s End-to-End, Open Source AI Platform Empowers Effective and Efficient AI Development

ClearML, the leading solution for unleashing AI in the enterprise, is debuting its end-to-end, unified, open source AI Platform, purpose-built to ease AI adoption and the entire development lifecycle. ClearML's platform works to support every phase of AI development—from lab to production, deployment, and monitoring—while seamlessly integrating with existing tools, frameworks, and infrastructures.

Foundry Solves for AI Compute Demands with Democratized, Cost-Efficient GPU Platform

Foundry, an emerging cloud provider founded by alumni from Google DeepMind's core Deep Learning team, is debuting the Foundry Cloud Platform, the real-time market and orchestration engine for GPU compute that democratizes access to the necessary infrastructure to build and deploy AI. Built from the ground up to solve for inaccessibility to GPU compute—typically reserved for well-funded labs—the Foundry Cloud Platform serves to reduce the operational complexity of AI development and enhance compute cost efficiency by up to 6x, according to the company.

$3M in Funding Forwards Bardeen’s AI Agent Productivity Platform for Enterprise Workers

Bardeen, a provider of AI agents capable of automating repetitive knowledge work using a natural language interface, is announcing that it has secured $3 million in additional funding, bringing the company's total funding to date to $22 million. This investment—-coming from Dropbox Ventures and HubSpot Ventures—will serve to advance Bardeen's mission of delivering fully autonomous AI that drives efficient process automation.

deepset Simplifies AI Pipeline Development with Free, Drag-and-Drop Visual Editor Tool

deepset, the mission-critical AI company, is unveiling deepset Studio, a free, user-friendly enabler of custom AI development that abstracts the rampant complexities from AI pipeline development. With a visual, drag-and-drop environment, engineering and data teams can create robust, composable AI systems with ease—including agentic and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) apps—which are immediately deployable within cloud and on-prem environments via deepset Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.

Snorkel AI Enters Agreement with BNY, Accelerating AI-Based Transformations

Through this collaboration with BNY, Snorkel AI will help the firm accelerate AI initiatives that aim to bolster efficiency, productivity, and insights.

Vectra AI Delivers Holistic, Proactive Security Posture Management for Actively Changing Environments

Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is unveiling a recent expansion to its Vectra AI Platform, the integrated signal solution for XDR. This update focuses on affording security operations center (SOC) teams with the necessary tools to proactively address threats and deter behaviors within increasingly dynamic hybrid environments.