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Final Day of the 12 Days of OpenAI Brings o3 and o3-mini

As "Shipmas" draws to a close, Day 12 of the 12 Days of OpenAI event brought the announcement of o3 and o3-mini, which are now available for public safety testing.

OpenAI Unveils New Channels for ChatGPT During its Holiday Event

As the 12 Days of OpenAI—where for 12 days of December, the company will launch new product innovations for the AI space—continued, days 10 and 11 unveiled exciting new innovations that bring fresh ways to interact with ChatGPT.

Confido Health Debuts AI Workers for Automating Healthcare Operations

Confido Health, the company revolutionizing healthcare, is announcing the completion of a $3 million funding round, propelling Confido Health's innovative new solution, AI-powered digital workers for healthcare. Acknowledging the present staffing and operational challenges plaguing healthcare organizations, Confido Health is debuting specialized AI workers designed to seamlessly automate tasks and manage end-to-end healthcare operations.

Harnessing Hybrid Semantic Search with CrateDB and SearchBlox

In Enterprise AI World's latest webinar, Unlocking the Power of Semantic Search, experts from CrateDB and SearchBlox Software, Inc. discuss key technologies and practices for successfully employing semantic search and overcoming its array of challenges. 

Day 8 and 9 of 12 Days of OpenAI Revamp Search and Supercharge Developers

Days 8 and 9 of the 12 Days of OpenAI—where for 12 days of December, the company will launch new product innovations for the AI space—ring in exciting launches for both search and developer experiences.

OpenAI Debuts Conversation Organization with Projects in ChatGPT

As Day 7 of the 12 Days of OpenAI—where for 12 days of December, the company will launch new product innovations for the AI space—arrived, Kevin Weil, CPO at OpenAI, debuted the company's latest—and highly requested—innovation: Projects in ChatGPT. Now, ChatGPT users can customize ChatGPT conversations to meet the needs and parameters of specific projects.

Day 6 of 12 Days of OpenAI Brings Real-Time Video to Advanced Voice

Returning with Day 6 of the 12 Days of OpenAI—where for 12 days of December, the company will launch new product innovations for the AI space—OpenAI introduced video in Advanced Voice mode.

12 Days of OpenAI Continues with ChatGPT Apple Integration

Continuing the momentum of the 12 Days of OpenAI—where for 12 days of December, the company will launch new product innovations for the AI space—OpenAI unveiled and the integration of ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence.

Aerospike’s Latest Version of its Vector Search Functionality Emphasizes Choice and Simplicity

Aerospike Inc., the real-time database built for infinite scale, speed, and savings, is debuting the latest version of Aerospike Vector Search, equipped with new indexing and storage capabilities. Centering flexibility, performance, and streamlined operations, Vector Search addresses current customer problems with new engineering techniques and innovations in the vector space.

12 Days of OpenAI Kicks Off with ChatGPT Pro, Sora Launch, and More

OpenAI has launched its festive "12 Days of OpenAI" event, where for 12 days of December, the company will launch new product innovations for the AI space. Days 1-3 have already introduced exciting updates, including the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI's Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program, and the emergence of Sora out of research preview.

LexisNexis Debuts Nexis Data+, Connecting Organizations with Trusted, Enriched Data

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, is unveiling Nexis Data+, a single API platform designed to equip organizations with trusted, high-quality data, enriched by AI. As a collection of information that leverages a portfolio of over 23,000 licensed publications, Nexis Data+ integrates corporate, legal, financial, and compliance data, as well as generative AI-approved licensed news content, into existing tools, platforms, and AI models.

Moveworks and Box Integration Pairs AI-Powered Retrieval with Intelligent Content Management

Moveworks, the AI-powered Copilot transforming enterprise search and automation, is announcing a new integration with Box, the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, which combines Moveworks' Agentic Reasoning Engine with Box's ICM capabilities. This robust combination will boost the efficiency of accessing information and insights from Box, offering a natural language interface for employees to analyze complex data.

New Relic and AWS Connect GenAI Offerings to Supercharge Operational Observability and Actionable Insights

New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Platform, is announcing an integration between New Relic AI—New Relic's in-platform generative AI (GenAI) assistant—and Amazon Q Business, AWS' GenAI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work. Propelled by the goal of affording enterprises both visibility and actionable, intelligent insights on their operational infrastructures, New Relic and AWS' integration drives fast, intelligent, cost-effective business operations amid increasingly complex data environments.

Teradata Integration with Amazon Bedrock Fast-Tracks GenAI Implementation

Teradata is debuting a new integration with Amazon Bedrock that offers "rapid-start" generative AI (GenAI) use cases through Teradata VantageCloud, greatly accelerating GenAI implementation. This integration will combine Vantage Cloud's open and connected framework with Amazon Bedrock—a fully managed AWS service for adopting GenAI—enabling customers to quickly use an array of foundational models with their VantageCloud data.

Clarifai’s Compute Orchestration for AI Centers Seamless Management, Security, and Vendor Flexibility

Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, is unveiling new compute orchestration capabilities for AI workloads, designed for any AI model, on any compute, at any scale. This innovation enables organizations to better optimize their compute and cloud investments for AI by eliminating vendor lock-in and forwarding efficient compute spend.

Tailwinds by Innovative Solutions Streamlines AI Implementation at a Fraction of the Cost

Innovative Solutions, a leading provider of cloud services solutions for growing businesses and a Premier Tier AWS Partner with generative AI competency, is debuting Tailwinds, a generative AI (GenAI) accelerator platform for a variety of enterprise personas, which is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Engineered to transform GenAI adoption and implementation, Tailwinds enables users to build GenAI proof of concepts (POCs) up to 100x faster than traditional methods, at 1% of the price, according to Innovative Solutions.

MaterialsZone’s AI-Guided Product Development Enriches and Accelerates Experimentation

MaterialsZone, the Lean R&D solution for materials innovation, is debuting a new AI-Guided Product Development capability that supercharges the research process with AI-generated experiment suggestions. Designed to democratize iterative AI models for R&D, AI-Guided Product Development promises greater research autonomy while better aligning the development phase with R&D schedules.

Couchbase Capella AI Services Empower Fast, Secure, Cost-Effective AI Agents

Couchbase, the developer data platform for critical applications in the AI world, is debuting Capella AI Services, a comprehensive set of services designed to address various bottlenecks associated with AI agent development and deployment at scale. Emphasizing security, reduced latency, and optimized operational costs, Capella AI Services empower a broad stroke of AI innovation by supporting complex workflows and easing data management.

Domino Data Lab’s Fall Release Highlights Cost-Efficient, Governed, Powerful AI

Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI Platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, is announcing an array of platform capabilities and integrations with leading AI innovators—AWS, NetApp, and NVIDIA—that focus on accelerating AI time-to-value while reducing costs and risk. Accompanied by Domino's ongoing momentum in the SaaS market—having experienced a 750% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the last year—the company continues its rapid innovation in the AI enablement space. 

Kinesis Network’s Compute Optimization Now Features Serverless Capability, Powering AI Use Cases

Kinesis Network, a global compute optimization platform, is announcing a new serverless innovation that allows enterprises to run workloads across a dynamic, multi-cloud environment. Addressing the demand for high-performance computing needed for AI, Kinesis' serverless feature empowers enterprises to unlock the value of idle computing power within its Compute-as-a-Service platform.

Baffle Expands Data Protection to pgvector on PostgreSQL, Amplifying GenAI Security

Baffle, the easiest way to protect sensitive data, is debuting the extension of its data protection platform to pgvector on PostgreSQL. With this release, Baffle expands its data protection and control capabilities to the vector database space, ensuring that enterprises using vector databases for their GenAI apps are secured against potential data leakage.

Quantexa Brings Intelligent Entity Resolution to the Microsoft Fabric, Powering Greater Data Quality and Usability

Quantexa, a global leader in decision intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, is announcing the immediate availability of Quantexa's Unify Workload for the Microsoft Fabric. Quantexa Unify brings advanced, AI-powered entity resolution and data matching to Microsoft Fabric, powering an interconnected view of continually refreshed, trusted enterprise data.

Securiti Fuses Intelligent Data Protection and Control with Copilot Usage

Securiti, the pioneer of the Data Command Center, is unveiling a new solution engineered to increase data security for AI copilot adoption. Dubbed Security for AI Copilots in SaaS apps, Securiti addresses the gap between copilot innovation and data leakage and exposure, offering a comprehensive solution that boosts employee productivity and implements robust, continuous data security and controls.

Snorkel AI Joins AWS ISV Accelerate Program, Unveiling its AI Data Development Platform on AWS Marketplace

Snorkel AI, the company making enterprise AI data development programmatic, is announcing another milestone in its multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS centered around empowering organizations to build, deploy, and evaluate custom, production-ready AI models. Snorkel AI has officially joined the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, further accompanied by the availability of Snorkel Flow on the AWS Marketplace.

Informatica Accelerates AI and Analytics Initiatives with Reliable Data for Microsoft Azure

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is debuting three new features for Microsoft Azure that are engineered to power AI and analytics innovations with trusted data. Each innovation serves to streamline the creation of GenAI applications and Microsoft Copilot experiences, paving the way for enterprises to derive greater value from Microsoft's AI and analytics services—including the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. 

Snowflake Connector for Microsoft Power Platform Enhances App Development, Security, and Insights

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is unveiling an expanded partnership with Microsoft, establishing a new Snowflake Power Platform connector for Microsoft Power Platform—a low-/no-code set of services for building enterprise solutions. This connector enables bidirectional access between Dataverse—the enterprise data platform for Copilot—and Snowflake's AI Data Cloud, simplifying data interoperability between Snowflake, the Microsoft Power Platform, and Dynamics 365. 

Introducing KM & AI Summit 2025: An Opportunity for Discussion, Innovation, and Networking in Scottsdale, AZ

At KMWorld 2024, Information Today, Inc., announced KM & AI Summit 2025, a premiere event hosted in Scottsdale, AZ that invites professionals from all industries to discuss and explore the bustling intersection of knowledge management and AI. Planned for March 17-19 at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort and Spa, KM & AI Summit 2025 is a must-attend event for KM professionals, AI specialists, data scientists, and business and IT leaders alike.

$33M for Selector Supercharges NLP-Based Network Visibility Solution

Selector, the AIOps solution that gives the world's largest companies complete visibility and intelligence into their highly complex networks, infrastructure, and applications, is announcing the close of its Series B funding round, having raised $33 million. Led by Ansa Capital with participation from Two Bear Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Sinewave Ventures, AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and Hyperlink Ventures, Selector's latest capital infusion will accelerate the development of its AIOps, large language model (LLM), and digital twin technologies. 

Cloudera Boosts Data Workflow Efficiency with New AI Agent and Octopai Acqusition

Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling two major announcements: The company is releasing Cloudera Copilot for Cloudera AI, a new AI assistant for data practitioners, and has entered a definitive agreement with Octopai to acquire its data lineage and catalog platform. Each announcement reflects Cloudera's commitment towards delivering optimal, data-driven outcomes for data scientists, engineers, and developers alike. 

Nutrient Unveils AI Innovations that Modernize Document Workflows

Nutrient, the leading document processing and workflow automation platform, is announcing several new releases for its product suite, featuring AI-powered capabilities that elevate business productivity. Each of these innovations serve to modernize document workflows, increasing overall efficiency and forwarding higher profitability, according to Nutrient. 

Five9 AI Agents Pair Flexible Autonomy with Personalized, Accurate Conversations

Five9, provider of the Intelligent CX Platform, is launching Five9 AI Agents, the next generation of Five9 Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) that merges GenAI with conversational AI and natural language processing (NLP) to deliver intuitive, personalized experiences across voice and digital channels. Making highly knowledgeable, human-like interactions for chat and voice bots a reality, Five9 AI Agents reduce the number of interactions needed to be elevated to human agents while ensuring businesses retain control, flexibility, and trust over their AI deployments. 

Nutanix Enterprise AI Streamlines LLM Deployment and Control in Hybrid Environments

Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, is unveiling Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), a cloud native offering that simplifies the deployment of large language models (LLMs), on any Kubernetes platform, at the edge, in core data centers, and on public cloud services such as AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE. This launch empowers enterprises to innovate in the space of AI quickly, securely, and with hybridity at its core—all while improving ROI, according to Nutanix.

Spotter by ThoughtSpot Powers Scalable, Data-Driven Decision-Making via Natural Language Interface

ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is debuting Spotter, an agentic AI analyst designed to help enterprises derive greater, actionable value from their data. Based around accessibility, reliability, and enriched insights, Spotter is ThoughtSpot's AI-powered solution for enterprises seeking to scale trusted, data-driven decision-making.

DataRobot’s Enterprise AI Suite Eases GenAI Development, Deployment, and Testing

DataRobot, the provider of AI that makes business sense, is debuting a new enterprise AI suite capable of building composable GenAI applications and agents designed to maximize business impact. Spurred by the findings of DataRobot's recent survey—which found that only 34% of AI professionals feel adequately equipped to meet business goals—the company's latest release centralizes best practices and out-of-the-box strategies for creating and deploying AI.

Box Revolutionizes Intelligent Content Management with AI, Enhanced Security, and More

Box, Inc., the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, is unveiling a set of transformative AI capabilities that alter the way enterprises manage, innovate with, and derive value from their content. As companies become inundated with vast quantities of unstructured data, Box's latest releases—Box AI Studio and Box Apps—aim to alleviate the pains and pressures of content management through ease of use, powerful deployment options, and robust security.

Diliko Revolutionizes Data Management with Agentic AI-Based Platform

Diliko, the agentic AI, on-demand data management company for mid-sized enterprises, is emerging from stealth with a cloud-delivered, end-to-end platform designed to automate complex data management workflows, optimize performance, and ensure security and AI governance. Delivering its agentic AI technology to several industries—including healthcare, finance, and logistics—Diliko aims to help enterprises derive true value from their data without needing to deal with infrastructure complexities.

eGain AI Agent Centers Transparency, Trust, and Knowledge System Integration

eGain's AI Agent solution serves to resolve this integration roadblock by offering case-based reasoning derived from eGain Knowledge Hub's trusted content repository. By pairing language models with the power of the eGain Knowledge Hub—and eGain Knowledge Transformers, a library of micro-task transformers—eGain AI Agent delivers personalized, engaging, transparent conversational experiences based on rapidly buildable, trusted content.

$82M Supercharges GMI Cloud’s Scalable, High Performance Cloud Infrastructure for AI

GMI Cloud, a leading AI-native GPU cloud provider, is announcing the results of its Series A funding round, having raised $15 million in equity funding and $67 million in debt financing. This funding round—led by Headline Asia with participation from Banpu Next and Wistron Corporation—propels GMI Cloud's expansion in the U.S. and its strategic vision to power the AI-driven future with advanced GPUs and cloud infrastructure. 

Spot AI Debuts Video AI Agents, Transforming Camera Footage into a Proactive, Valuable Data Source

Spot AI, a leader in AI camera systems, is unveiling a remarkable innovation for AI application in the physical world—Video AI Agents, a platform transforming cameras from passive observers to proactive problem solvers. By infusing cameras with advanced AI technology, Video AI Agents enable cameras to identify, reason, and trigger responses to real-life incidents without requiring human intervention. This announcement is underpinned by Spot AI's recent equity funding round, having raised $31 million—bringing the company's total capital raised to $93 million. 

GitHub's Latest Releases Fuel Developer Choice and Control in the Age of AI

At its latest developer conference, GitHub unveiled a series of new innovations that emphasize developer choice, control, and ease of use for the AI era. Culminating in three key announcements—the now multi-model GitHub Copilot, the introduction of GitHub Spark, and additional updates across Copilot and GitHub Models—GitHub continues to innovate, motivated by its ambition to reach 1 billion developers. 

Coveo Joins the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, Supercharging its AI Product Reach

Coveo, a leading enterprise AI platform that brings AI search and generative AI (GenAI) to every point-of-experience, is joining the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, bringing AWS co-sell support to Coveo's range of AI search, recommendations, and generative experiences. AWS ISV Accelerate Program is a co-sell program designed to help AWS partners expand their proprietary reach by connecting ISVs with the AWS Sales organization.

MinIO’s Enhancements for Arm Usher in True Power Efficiency for the AI Era

MinIO, the leader in high-performance storage for AI, is announcing new optimizations for Arm-based chipsets powering on its object store, expanding the software ecosystem for the power of Arm. Centering low-power, computationally dense chips, MinIO's enhancements for Arm aim to better accommodate the AI-powered future.

GencoreAI by Securiti Makes Building Proprietary Data-Powered AI Safe and Easy

Securiti, the pioneer in data security, privacy, governance, and compliance, is debuting GencoreAI, a generative AI (GenAI) accelerator designed to make the process of building safe, enterprise-grade AI, copilots, and agents, easy. Enabling enterprises to take advantage of the GenAI surge without sacrificing compliance, GencoreAI delivers a holistic, first-of-its-kind solution for elevating conversational AI to the proprietary level, according to the vendor.

Cofense Debuts Enterprise-Specific AI Spam Filtering to Streamline SOC Analyst Workflows

Cofense, the leading provider of intelligence-driven phishing defense solutions, is unveiling new AI-powered capabilities for its Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform that work to ease SOC analyst workloads with AI spam reduction. SOC analysts, plagued by heavy workloads and alert fatigue, benefit from the ability to sort through alert noise and focus on genuine threats with Cofense's new AI functionality.

SnapLogic Agent Creator Delivers Highly Integrated AI Agents to the Enterprise

SnapLogic, the leader in generative integration, is unveiling SnapLogic Agent Creator, a new solution that enables enterprise teams to design, deploy, and manage AI agents that integrate directly into any workflow or data pipeline. Aiming to make generative AI (GenAI) a true reality for any business, SnapLogic Agent Creator propels agentic AI past simple automation to existing as interconnected, data-fueled assets.

$18M in Funding Catapults CrewAI’s Multi-Agentic Platform to the Enterprise Level

CrewAI, the leading multi-agent platform, is announcing the results of an inception funding round—led by Boldstart Ventures with a Series A led by Insight Partners—having raised $18 million. Bringing substantial capital to CrewAI and expanding its market strategy, the core of the company's innovation—an open source, multi-agentic platform—now features an Enterprise edition, delivering CrewAI's technology to even larger enterprises.

Vultr Expands Platform to Better Power Scalable, Cost-Efficient Agentic AI

Vultr, the world's largest privately held cloud computing platform, is unveiling the expansion of its Vultr Serverless Inference platform, centering on providing the necessary infrastructure for supporting agentic AI. With more and more focus shifting on the utility of AI agents, Vultr's latest release aims to lower the barrier for successful implementation with agile, scalable, high-performance computing resources at the data center edge.

Endor Labs Drives Safe Open Source AI Model Adoption with Expansive Hugging Face Scoring

Endor Labs, the leader in open source software security, is debuting a new capability—Endor Scores for AI Models—that enables organizations to more easily assess the most secure open source AI models on Hugging Face. To alleviate the challenges of identifying hidden risks associated with open source AI models, Endor Scores for AI Models evaluates and scores models based on four attributes—security, popularity, quality, and activity.

Progress Flowmon Boosts Network Observability with IP Address Indexing

Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, is unveiling the latest release of Progress Flowmon, the AI-powered network observability platform that reduces risk and improves resilience across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. This release introduces IP Address Indexing, a capability that dramatically enhances IP search efficiency, improving network administrators' and cybersecurity professionals' ability to detect and track network activity associated with a specific IP address.

Cognizant Reimagines its Neuro AI Platform to Bring GenAI to Life Faster, at Scale

Cognizant, the company engineering modern business, has enhanced its Cognizant Neuro AI platform to more rapidly and effectively derive value from generative AI (GenAI) use cases. While many enterprises still struggle to apply AI to solve business problems, the latest iteration of Cognizant Neuro AI allows business leaders—not just data scientists and engineering teams—to create an AI model that directly addresses their unique proprietary challenges.

Nebius Democratizes Powerful, Dynamic, AI-Native Computing

Nebius, a leading AI infrastructure company, is debuting the Nebius platform, a truly AI-native cloud computing platform purpose-built for supporting today's AI surge. Designed to manage the full ML lifecycle, the Nebius platform offers a range of advantages that suit various personas and use cases, from individual researchers to start-ups, major AI developers, and more.

Alation’s AI Governance Solution Cultivates Robust Data Foundations and Ensures Regulatory Compliance

Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, is unveiling its new AI Governance solution designed to drive ROI for AI initiatives while addressing the surge in regulatory demands, organizational AI goals, and the need for ethical AI. Helping enterprises accelerate AI readiness, streamline model development, and ensure regulatory compliance, Alation's AI Governance solution is purpose-built to empower organizations' AI initiatives at scale, with confidence.

Snorkel AI Ushers in Support for Specialized, Highly Accurate AI Models

Snorkel AI, the company making enterprise AI data development programmatic, is debuting new specialization capabilities for Snorkel Flow, the AI data development platform. Designed to scale AI development practices and accelerate specialized AI/ML models, Snorkel Flow continues to support the entire AI data development lifecycle, according to the company.

$8.25M in Funding Supercharges ApertureData’s Multimodal Database Built for Next-Gen AI

ApertureData, the company solving the data management challenges for large scale, multimodal data, is announcing the close of its oversubscribed seed round, having raised $8.25 million for its purpose-built, multimodal AI database. Serving to bridge the gap between enterprises' diverse data assets and AI success, ApertureData delivers a unified solution for managing and accessing complex, multimodal datasets. 

ClearML Democratizes Compute Resources for AI Development and Deployment

ClearML, the leading solution for unleashing AI in the enterprise, is debuting its new multi-tenant GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) for Enterprise, an offering that delivers greater GPU utilization for enterprises to improve their AI innovation and ROI. GPUaaS for Enterprise empowers organizations to successfully support their AI initiatives with the compute required while offering a centralized location for monitoring and managing AI resources.

Slingshot Brings Data and Business Users Closer with New AI-Driven Capabilities

Slingshot, the work management platform from software company Infragistics that brings data to the center of everything teams work on, is announcing a series of new AI-powered capabilities—which range from rapid comprehension features to new dashboards, analytics democratization, and more—that transform data into actionable insights, fast. Slingshot's latest release empowers every business to make informed decisions based on the entirety of a company's data sources across departments, platforms, and channels. 

Cloudera AI Inference Powered by NVIDIA NIM Microservices Yields Compliant, Highly Performant GenAI

Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling Cloudera AI Inference powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. Designed to enhance the performance, security, and scalability of AI models, Cloudera AI Inference is one of the industry's first AI inference services that provides embedded NIM microservice capability, according to the company. 

Domino Debuts Fully Configurable, Centralized, End-to-End AI Governance

Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI Platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, is unveiling Domino Governance, a solution designed to embed AI governance within data science workflows throughout the full lifecycle. As AI initiatives continue to increase in complexity, Domino Governance serves to effectively mitigate risks while driving positive business outcomes.

MicroStrategy Battles GenAI’s ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ with Latest Accessibility-Centered Update

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is debuting the latest iteration of MicroStrategy ONE, the fully cloud-native AI/BI platform for solving some of the world's toughest data challenges. The newest version centers on the power of generative AI (GenAI) to make enterprise data and insights more readily available to all employees, including the less-technical frontline.

SingleStore Acquires BryteFlow, Facilitating Real-Time Analytics and New GenAI Use Cases

SingleStore, the world's only database that empowers users to transact, analyze, and search petabytes of data in milliseconds, is announcing its recent acquisition of BryteFlow, a leading data integration platform. With this acquisition, SingleStore expands its ability to ingest data from a range of sources—such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and more—and helps its users operationalize data from their CRM and ERP systems.

Kyndryl Launches Copilot for Microsoft 365 Services to Facilitate AI Success

Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing a set of services designed to facilitate the adoption of Copilot for Microsoft 365 as well as maximize its business impact. Microsoft Gen AI for the workplace by Kyndryl serves to drive AI adoption and business success across the workplace while delivering a robust foundation of data capabilities.

Dataiku Debuts LLM Cost, Quality, and Safety Guardrail Services

Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, is debuting its LLM Guard Services suite, a set of solutions designed to preserve the quality, safety, and cost effectiveness of generative AI (GenAI) deployments at scale, from proof-of-concept to full production. The three components—Cost Guard, Safe Guard, and Quality Guard—function within a scalable, no-code framework integrated with the Dataiku LLM Mesh, the secure API gateway for building and managing enterprise-grade GenAI.

Algolia’s Reimagined ‘Crawler’ Solution Streamlines and Accelerates Data Ingestion for AI Search

Algolia, the world's only end-to-end AI Search platform, is announcing the availability of its latest iteration of Crawler, a data ingestion tool redesigned to more rapidly and easily ingest data into Algolia AI Search. Able to scan web pages of any size, the next-gen Crawler streamlines web scraping while minimizing the time it takes to configure and maintain the process of data ingestion.

Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Eases Complex AI Agent Development

Moveworks, the leading generative AI copilot for employee support, is debuting Agentic Automation, an automation engine designed to revolutionize the way enterprises create AI agents.

MOSTLY AI Debuts Synthetic Text Functionality for Training LLMs without Exposing PII

MOSTLY AI, a pioneer in structured synthetic data, is unveiling a new synthetic text functionality that preserves the privacy of proprietary data assets for training AI models. This capability enables organizations to leverage a vast range of text data—such as emails, customer support transcripts, chatbot conversations, and more—to train and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) without risking a privacy breach. 

Redbird Brings to Market True Self-Serve Analytics with Conversational AI

Redbird, the AI-powered, conversational business intelligence (BI) platform that helps enterprises easily automate and unify their data analytics and reporting work in minutes, is bringing its AI product to market. Aiming to disrupt the prevalence of inaccurate, unsecure, and rigid chat-based BI solutions, Redbird's AI chat platform specializes in deep, contextual, democratized analytics to help power complex data ecosystems. 

Selector AI’s New Innovations Mitigate Operational Complexity and Decrease MTTR

Selector AI, the leader in network and infrastructure AIOps, is unveiling new capabilities that reduce operational complexity while powering fast issue resolution and decision-making with AI. The new offerings—the industry's first Network Language Model (NLM), enhanced digital twin capabilities, and programmable synthetics—enable enterprises to unlock the value of their data and supercharge productivity.

New SingleStore Integration with Snowflake Streamlines Real-Time AI App Development

SingleStore, the real-time data platform that allows users to transact, analyze, and contextualize data, is announcing that it has developed a bi-driecitonal Iceberg integration that shares data with Snowflake, enabling SingleStore to be available as a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace. Now, Snowflake users can safely deploy a SingleStore cluster within their Snowflake accounts without having to migrate or copy data outside the Snowflake governance boundary, as well as being able to use Snowflake credits to pay for the compute to run their SingleStore workloads.

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.