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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.”

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .”

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Distributed Postgres goes full open source with Citus: why, what & how

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A few months ago we made Citus fully open source. Contrary to folks who say that Postgres is a monolith that can’t scale—Postgres in fact has a fully open source solution for distributed scale, one that’s also native to Postgres. Why make the final pieces of Citus open source now? It’s called Citus !

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To cope with stricter data regulation, enterprises should look to fully open APIs

TechCrunch

Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). Picture this scenario as a young enterprise: You are a customer of Azure, AWS, or the Google Cloud Platform, assuming they are the frontrunners.

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Azure container Apps: The future of Microservices in Azure?

Xebia

Their aim when building Azure Container Apps was to create an opinionated way of deploying containerized workloads to Azure that brings several features that Kubernetes could provide without having to manage a cluster: autoscaling, zero downtime deployments and traffic shaping with control over ingress.

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. It’s blocked.” And we’ve switched among different OpenAI models.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

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It will provide access to Azure features, including speech recognition and sentiment analysis, and the ability to add more sophisticated features through Power Platform connectors and Power Automate workflows, all with governance features so that IT is still in control. Maia has a companion, Azure Cobalt, for general (non-AI) workloads.