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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

The recent AI boom has sparked plenty of conversations around its potential to eliminate jobs, but a survey of 1,400 US business leaders by the Upwork Research Institute found that 49% of hiring managers plan to hire more independent and full-time employees in response to the demand for AI skills.

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Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform

TechCrunch

Organizations dealing with large amounts of data often struggle to ensure that data remains high-quality. According to a survey from Great Expectations, which creates open source tools for data testing, 77% of companies have data quality issues and 91% believe that it’s impacting their performance.

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Union.ai raises $10M to simplify AI and ML workflow orchestration

TechCrunch

Union.ai , a startup emerging from stealth with a commercial version of the open source AI orchestration platform Flyte, today announced that it raised $10 million in a round contributed by NEA and “select” angel investors. We need to bridge both these worlds in a structured and repeatable way.”

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Percona Live 2023 Event Recap

Datavail

Percona Live 2023 was an exciting open-source database event that brought together industry experts, database administrators, data engineers, and IT leadership. Percona Live 2023 Session Highlights The three days of the event were packed with interesting open-source database sessions!

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Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

TechCrunch

The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. ” (For context, Prophet is an open source algorithm for generating time-series statistical models, which are often used to forecast events.).

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Equalum lands new capital to help companies build data pipelines

TechCrunch

In a recent MuleSoft survey , 84% of organizations said that data and app integration challenges were hindering their digital transformations and, by extension, their adoption of cloud platforms. Equalum manages data pipelines, leveraging open source packages, including Apache Spark and Kafka to stream and batch data processes.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

TechCrunch

Data science teams are stymied by disorganization at their companies, impacting efforts to deploy timely AI and analytics projects. In a recent survey of “data executives” at U.S.-based With Predibase, we’ve seen engineers and analysts build and operationalize models directly.” healthcare company.”