Oracle and NVIDIA have expanded their partnership to make enterprise AI services more available, powerful, and practical. The announcements, made during Oracle AI World, cover everything from monstrously powerful new hardware to deeply integrated software that aims to put AI at the very core of a company’s data.Ian Buck, VP of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing at NVIDIA, said: “Through this...
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If you’ve ever thought companies talk more than act when it comes to their AI strategy, a new Cisco report backs you up. It turns out that just 13 percent globally are actually prepared for the AI revolution.However, this small group – which Cisco calls the ‘Pacesetters’ – are lapping the competition. The third annual Cisco AI Readiness Index found these top performers are four times more likely...
In a cement plant operated by Conch Group, an agentic AI system built on Huawei infrastructure now predicts the strength of clinker with over 90% accuracy and autonomously adjusts calcination parameters to cut coal consumption by 1%—decisions that previously required human expertise accumulated over decadesThis exemplifies how Huawei is developing agentic AI systems that move beyond simple...
Salesforce plans to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to help businesses adopt AI. The move underscores the company’s push to stay competitive as AI becomes central to enterprise software.Founded and headquartered in San Francisco since 1999, Salesforce has been adding AI features across its products, including the workplace messaging tool Slack. The company is competing with...
Meta and Oracle are upgrading their AI data centres with NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X Ethernet networking switches — technology built to handle the growing demands of large-scale AI systems. Both companies are adopting Spectrum-X as part of an open networking framework designed to improve AI training efficiency and accelerate deployment across massive compute clusters.Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO,...
Every business, big or small, has a wealth of valuable data that can inform impactful decisions. But to extract insights, there’s usually a good deal of manual work that needs to be done on raw data, either by semitechnical users (such as founders and product leaders), or dedicated – and expensive – data specialists. Either way, to produce real value, information has to be collected, shepherded,...
Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise, a new platform it calls “the new front door for AI in the workplace”.Announced during a virtual press conference, the platform brings together Google’s Gemini models, first and third-party agents, and the core technology of what was formerly known as Google Agentspace to create a singular agentic platform. It aims to democratise the creation and use of...
A new report from Red Hat finds that 89 percent of businesses are yet to see any customer value from their AI endeavours. However, organisations anticipate a 32 percent increase in AI investment by 2026.The survey finds that AI and security are the joint top IT priorities for UK organisations over the next 18 months, with 62 percent of respondents citing them as necessary. These are followed by hybrid or...
Cisco has entered an increasingly competitive race to dominate AI data centre interconnect technology, becoming the latest major player to unveil purpose-built routing hardware for connecting distributed AI workloads across multiple facilities.The networking giant unveiled its 8223 routing system on October 8, introducing what it claims is the industry’s first 51.2 terabit per second fixed router...
A new paper from a Samsung AI researcher explains how a small network can beat massive Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning.In the race for AI supremacy, the industry mantra has often been “bigger is better.” Tech giants have poured billions into creating ever-larger models, but according to Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau of Samsung SAIL Montréal, a radically different and more efficient path...